Filmes

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

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 story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

Waiting woman

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

1962 Japanese movie

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

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.

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...