Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

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...

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

1962 Japanese movie

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between...

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

A 1948 Japanese film.

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works...