Kazuko Okada

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

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

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When...

A high schooler fulfills a lifelong fantasy after a high-tech device lets him slip into the body of his childhood crush's best friend.

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into...

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.