Miki Odagiri

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

1962 Japanese movie

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

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

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

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

Japanese drama film.

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her...

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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...

Japanese drama film.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.