Jun Yokoyama

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

A Japanese film

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Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanes widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines of WW2.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Tokudaiji

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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Cast: Kamesaburo Bando

A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.

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Cast: Kenji Oyama

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

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Cast: Konparu Minamizato

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara