Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōko Iida

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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...

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Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nijiko Kiyokawa

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...

Genre: Music

Cast: Isao Kuraishi

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

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Cast: Yôko Minamida

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shozaburo Abe

A 1937 Japanese film.

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Cast: Kuniko Miyake

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Japanese silent film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Matsukawa

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

A 1937 Japanese film.

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Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...

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Cast: Eiji Okada

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Hayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mie Kitahara

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Cast: Shozaburo Abe

A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Masayuki Mori

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiemi Eri

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

1951 Japanese movie

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Cast: Masao Wakahara

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa