A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of...

A Japanese film

Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife...

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a...

Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current...

A 1937 Japanese film.

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and...

The final film in the Beehive trilogy, Children of the Great Buddha chronicles war orphans working as tour guides among the looming statues and...

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

This documentary was produced on the request of the Korean railway-organisation during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The news-coverage in those...

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

Weed with Flowers

In Shimizu’s sequel to his 1948 masterpiece, a journalist arrives in the secluded foothills of Izu to find a hidden commune to ask, “What happened...