Movies

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.While the men are angry she is pregnant with no...

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.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

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...

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

Pinku from 1971.

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.