Fukuko Sayo

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mariko Okada

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinzō Shin

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Genre: War

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Tokito

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Cast: Chizuko Kobayashi

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Midori Tashiro