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Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Violence at Noon
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....
The Insect Woman
1954 Japanese movie
Aizen katsura
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...
Bridge of Japan
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Break Down that Wall
First japanese talking movie.
Reimei
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Modern Children
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Fireworks Over the Sea
Flowers on the Trail
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
Sandakan No. 8
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
The Forest Is Alive
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Untamed Woman
When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...
Street of Wandering Men
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...
Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
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
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...
The Great White Tower
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Farewell to Spring
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...
The War Without Weapons
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
The Song of the Cart
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
The Angry Street
Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.
Island of Fury
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...
Ballad of a Workman
Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farmer's son.
The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...
The Catch
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She...
Flora on the Sand
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Punishment Room
Shishun no izumi
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...
A House in the Quarter
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a...
Escape from Japan
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the...
The Hunter's Diary
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
A Thousand Suspects
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...
Chance Meeting
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...
Farewell to Dream
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
Nippon no obaachan
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
Tears
Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.
The Matsukawa Incident
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
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...
The Girl I Abandoned
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...
The Love of the Actress Sumako
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
Stray Dog
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
Marriage
Yokubo
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...
Women's House