Yūko Mochizuki

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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 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

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinji Tanaka

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Fujikawa

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

The last film produced by Shintoho.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a...

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Cast: Ineko Arima

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...

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Cast: Eijirō Yanagi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Zushi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Kawakami

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Nozoe

It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...

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Cast: Yuriko Hamada

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chishū Ryū

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

Genre: Family

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Documentary

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