BÚSQUEDA
Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and...
Sun over the River
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Most Valuable Wife
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...
The Long Darkness
1962 Japanese movie
Keshin
誘拐
The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
情熱の詩人啄木
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...
Yasubei Nakayama
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...
Outlaw island
Song of Love
Night in Hawaii
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Forbidden Lips
Mito Kōmon
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...
Forbidden
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...
The Crown of Life
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
The Story of Shunkin
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
The Betrothed
Japanese war film.
Navy
Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
Ah Special Attack Corps
The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...
滝の白糸
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Scrap Collectors
Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.
Summer Days Across the River
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Flying in the Air
While Yet a Wife
A Certain Woman
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Repast
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...
Lightning
1947 Japanese movie
Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
The Makioka Sisters
Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the...
Sweat
A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
The Woman Who Touched The Legs
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...
Chutaro of Banba
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...
A Pebble by the Wayside
A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...
New Women’s Dialogue
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Beyond the Hills
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...
The Ataka Family
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
The Day the Sun Rose
Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.
Behold This Mother
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
Farewell Song
牝犬脱走
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...
The Gambler's Code
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
Todoroki Sensei
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...
Eyes of Children
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
The Blue Sky Maiden
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Clothes of Deception
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...
Unending Advance
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...
A Lustful Man
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...
Tokyo March
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
The Killing of Otsuya
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
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...
Submarine Number One
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...
A Woman's Testament
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and...
Seven Miles to Nakayama
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Metropolitan Symphony
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...
An Osaka Story
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...
A Design for Dying
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...
The Wayside Pebble
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
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Who Will Judge Me?
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
Theater of Life
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
The Eleventh Hour
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
続々十代の性典
Resurrection
A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
The Beloved Image
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
The Hopeful Family
Mother and Child Grass
Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Across the Darkness
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
The Burdened Sisters
Chikaiteshi
Love River
Morning Whistling
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...
The Dead Beauty Incident
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...
Ōkuma Shigenobu the great