BÚSQUEDA
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
Ikiru
Shachō to onna tenin
Kiro Ni Tachite
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...
Mole Alley
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...
Birth of Romance
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
Surging Waves
On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...
Sunny house
1957 Japanese movie
Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...
A Star Athlete
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 businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...
Five Siblings
Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...
Southern Wind
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...
Otoko no iki
In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...
のんき侍大暴れ
One Step to Happiness
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an...
Tomorrow There Will Be Fine Weather
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
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...
New Tokyo March
Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...
Dancing Mistress
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
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...
The Layabout and Seabathing
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
A Man with a Married Woman's Hairdo
Sôbô
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...
South Wind 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Always in My Heart Part 2
Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...
The Foster Mother
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
Hobo Village
Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
Days of Youth
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
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...
When It Rains, It Pours
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
The Man Who Has Returned
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...
Warm Current
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Nobuko
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....
The Lights of Asakusa
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...
The Ball at the Anjo House
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
Jubilation Street
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
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
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...
I Graduated, But...
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
There Was a Father
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...
Street Without End
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...
The Masseurs and a Woman
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Scandal
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
Carmen's Innocent Love
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...
A Japanese Tragedy
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
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
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...
Ornamental Hairpin
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
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Family Meeting
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
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
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
Passion
A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...
Under the Blossoming Peach
A 1937 Japanese film.
Goodbye to the Front
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...
Silver Stream
Odoru ryûgûjô
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...
Dancing Girls of Izu
娘十八嘘つき時代
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...
Homecoming
Waiting woman
Waiting Woman
Weed with Flowers
Weeds with flowers
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
Dance of the Capital
Peko-chan and Densuke