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Mother is Strong
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of...
I Was Born, But...
1962 Japanese movie
Hagure kigeki mandara
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
The Funeral
1948 Japanese movie
Shin Aizen Katsura
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...
The Age of Beginnings
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
Shroud of Snow
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
The Only Son
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
Apart from You
1939 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Mother's Love Letter
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Nobuko
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...
What Did the Lady Forget?
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...
Every-Night Dreams
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...
A Mother Should Be Loved
Surging Waves
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Children in the Wind
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...
Woman in the Mist
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
The Living Magoroku
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...
A Man's Recompense: Part 1
A Man's Recompense: Part 2
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940...
Kokumin no chikai
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to...
Women at War
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...
Flower
Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a...
江戸いろは祭
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...
情艶一代女
Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
The Yellow Climate
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...
Dash to the Sun
An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.
A Young Rabble 2
The Dawn of Judo
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...
その手にのるな
Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),...
Sisters
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
Haha o tataeru uta
母恋草
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...
Introspection Tower
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...
A Hero of Tokyo
The Man Who Has Returned
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
The Lady and the Beard
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...
The Boss's Son at College
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...
Eclipse
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...
Okoto and Sasuke
Akogare no Hawaii kôro
憧れのハワイ航路
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
Golden Devil
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
Golden Devil Part 2
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...
Sumida River
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...
A Certain Woman
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Love and Power
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Burden of Life
1945 Japanese movie
Tengoku no hanayome
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
A Flower Blooms
1951 Japanese movie
Minami kaze
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...
Until the Day We Meet Again
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
Wedding Ring
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Japanese war film.
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...
The Tale of Genji
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
Deep River Melody
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...
Samurai Hawk
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...
Family Diary
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...
A Fishwife's Tale
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
The Rose on His Arm
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...
The Genealogy of Women
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
The Tokyo Dame
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...
Detective Duel
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...
365 Nights
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Victory Song
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved...
Lakeside Figure
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...
The Golden Demon
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...
Four Seasons of Children
This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his...
The Warrior from Kishu
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.
The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Men vs. Women
Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story...
The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari...
Heavenly Dragon
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...
Delinquent Girl
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
Diary of Forsaken Love
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
Growing Up
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Four Sisters
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...
The Luck Which Touched the Leg
Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...
A Primer on Marriage
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...
The Life of an Office Worker
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...
Physical Beauty
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to...
Couple on the Move
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Lovers' Duet
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
Journey
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Song of the Flower Basket
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...
Maria of the Ant Village
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...
The New Road: Akemi
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...
The Tree of Love
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
First Steps Ashore
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...
A Carpenter and Children
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...
With Songs in My Heart
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Akitsu Hot Springs
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
Mark of Blood
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
Zatoichi's Vengeance
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...
An Innocent Maid
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...
Love and Duty
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
Passion
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...
The New Road: Ryota
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Rumba of Passion
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
Mother
Bikkuri Sanjuushi
Four Swordsmen of Ashura
Kateikyōshi
Zangiku monogatari
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...
Mother and Child
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...
Kinuyo's First Love
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
Dance of the Capital
Dawn Chorus
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Dancing with a Mask
Shojo jutai
The Cat Knew
1961 Japanese movie
晴小袖
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...
Eleven High School Girls