Fifth Movement

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the

Kono ni uruwashi

1962 Japanese movie

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on

Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Don't Ever Die, Mama!

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon rea

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t

Yuganda tsuki

Mune yori mune ni

Japanese drama

The Song of the Bwana Toshi

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world comp

Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

The Sleeping Beast Within

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina

Vacuum Zone

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to

The War Without Weapons

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa

Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag

Story of a Prostitute

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds

Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers.

The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w

The Song of the Season

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure lo

Hana to musume to shiroi michi

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

Gone in the Rain

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They

The Tomb & the Divorce

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with b

Crest of Betrayal

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal

Kikenna onna

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

The Beautiful Teenager

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

Distant Love

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

A Chain of Islands

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how

The Matsukawa Incident

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

Desperate Pursuit

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sni

House on Fire

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his nu

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While takin

The Swan Elegy

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s

The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim

Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut

Kaze no Sumu Ie

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and

Wakai hito-tachi

Ishigassen

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villag

The Four Loves

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they

High Teen

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his

Ningen Gari

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs

Dead Beauty at the Bottom of the Sea, Hit Song is a Killing Tape

Set in the glamorous world of songwriting, this is the story of a failed songwriter who kills his mi

Female Doctor in the Surgical Ward

Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin r