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Moment of Terror
Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who ...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the ...
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Yearning
Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws ...
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Mother Country
Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to ...
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The Wiser Age
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Ballad of a Workman
Ballad of a Workman
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy ...
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A Wanderer’s Notebook
A Wanderer’s Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably ...
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Happiness of Us Alone
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
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Immortal Love
Immortal Love
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced ...
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The River Fuefuki
The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to ...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living ...
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The Rickshaw Man
The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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Danger Stalks Near
Danger Stalks Near
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Untamed Woman
Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor ...
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Eyes of Children
Eyes of Children
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds over the treatment of his daughter, ...
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A Wife’s Heart
A Wife’s Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
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Flowing
Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But ...
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The Tattered Wings
The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
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Floating Clouds
Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns ...
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The Garden of Women
The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.