Movies

An all-star cast portraying the end of the Edo period as a commemorative film for the late Tsumasaburo Bando.

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...

A beautiful tale of teacher-student love between a pure-hearted female teacher and a group of wild boys unfolds on the banks of a river in a mountain...

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on the novel by Genzo Murakami. The action...

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

In 19th-century Japan, a young swordsmith is determined to make the best sword possible after an inferior one he made indirectly led to the death of...

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social...

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

Inspired by the issue of rescuing former Japanese soldiers reportedly still surviving on Lubang Island.