Movies

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

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

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...

1962 Japanese movie

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

1962 Japanese movie

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

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...

Japanese comedy film.

1940 Japanese movie

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.