Sachiko Soma

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their...

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel...

1962 Japanese movie

1954 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

A 1961 crime film.

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

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to...

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is...

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and...

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

The 2nd movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film...

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

The 1st movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

Period comedy.

A girl from a tenement house was abducted in broad daylight, right in the heart of Edo.

A series of murders surrounds the 70,000 ryō in buried treasure hidden by the Kanayama Magistrate.