1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

1962 Japanese movie

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

1962 Japanese movie

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s...

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The...