Movies

Yoshiuki and his older brother Yoshihisa are in school. They live with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet while their father is in the...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

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

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.