Kuniko Igawa

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

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

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasumi Hara

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniko Igawa

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Uehara

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Kami

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

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Cast: Yasumi Hara

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

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Cast: Chikako Miyagi

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kato

A 1950 film by 大曾根辰夫.

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

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Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi...

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Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

1953 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kuniko Igawa