Sanae Takasugi

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

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeko Aizome

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiaki Konoe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Cast: Shozaburo Abe

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Keiko Orihara

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma