BÚSQUEDA
1961 Japanese movie
Kusa wo karu musume
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Ballad of Orin
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...
The Youth Killer
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...
The Human Bullet
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Preparation for the Festival
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...
The Ceremony
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
The Forest Is Alive
First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears
1962 Japanese movie
Curry Rice
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
Red Beard
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
Outlaw Cop
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
How Sorrowful
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Red Paper Lantern
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
Season of Farewell
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
Black River
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...
Time Within Memory
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Fountainhead
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...
Cash Calls Hell
Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise...
Woman with Wet Fingers
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the...
The Okinawa War of Ten Years
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...
The Fossil
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic...
The Christian Revolt
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s...
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is...
Death at an Old Mansion
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...
The Story of Pure Love
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...
The Twilight Story
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
The Surf
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...
Ghost Story of Youth