Tomoko Fumino

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and...

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century –...

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.

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather.

Film distributed by ATG.

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

1974 Japanese movie

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...

A youth film set in a high school.

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he has...