Movies

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Inside a bustling postwar Tokyo beer hall, a diverse group of patrons, performers, and workers spend a single evening navigating their personal...

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

When a family comprised of a couple with one son is hurled into poverty when the businessman father loses his business, the mother and son move to...

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

Comedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the...

After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drowned in Lake Izu. A mysterious empty boat, a forged...

Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no...