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Manao Horiuchi movie
Hikkoshi yatsure
Shachō to onna tenin
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...
Late Spring
The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Pineapple Butai
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
Good Morning
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends...
In Broad Daylight
1962 Japanese movie
湖愁
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Bengawan Solo
Kono ni uruwashi
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...
Floating Weeds
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Early Summer
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...
The Scarlet Camellia
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Women Doing Time
The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five...
Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
Phoenix
On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...
Sunny house
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
A Billionaire
1959 Japanese movie
Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
1963 Japanese movie
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1961 Japanese movie
Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s...
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
Hana to ryu
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
When a Woman Loves
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...
情艶一代女
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...
Victory of Women
Eighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen
Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she...
大江戸出世双六
After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the...
Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...
Love and the Shop Curtain
Based on the Nobu Koito story
Hahakogusa
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
Tokyo Story
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...
Beyond the Green Hills
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
Zero Focus
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
The Tokyo Dame
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
The Human Wall
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...
Akitsu Hot Springs
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Man of the World 2
Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...
Duel of Blood and Sand
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with,...
Tough Guy
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Love's Family Tree
A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe...
Young Breasts
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
Tokyo Bay
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
Black River
After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
The Strangers Upstairs
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...
When It Rains, It Pours
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial...
Pure White Nights
Japanese comedy film.
Hadashi no hanayome
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...
The Sound of Waves
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...
Samurai from Nowhere
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...
An Autumn Afternoon
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Late Autumn
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Drifting
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...
Twenty-Four Eyes
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
A Case of Honor
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...
Hero of the Red Light District
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Equinox Flower
The Shrikes
Yassamossa
Get Married, Mother
Shishun no izumi
Ai Sureba Koso
The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...
Twenty-Year-Old Youth
Child of the Streets
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...
The Betrayers Out!
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Warm Current
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...
Haha machi gusa
Jolly Barbers
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent...
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.
Girl's Reform School
First Love Questions and Answers
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in...
Kaze to Ki to Sora to