A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an...

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At...

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent...