Yaeko Mizutani

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts her...

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

An early Japanese film

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...

Returning from wartime China, Keiichi reunites with his mother Inako and adopted sister Tomi. He becomes drawn to Tomi’s beauty, and his mother...

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and...

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Rinzou tries to pressure Gosuke into marrying his daughter, Osumi, to him to make up for his debts. In a chance encounter the father and daughter...

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to...

1953 Japanese movie

The first talkie released in Japan by Mina Talkie

A tale of love and tears that blossomed in the shadow of the Seinan War.

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