Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the ...

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him ...

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named ...

1955 Japanese movie

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with ...

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a ...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. ...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor ...

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is ...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, ...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On ...

Ikeuchi was captain of the K – University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza ‘s western restaurant ...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.