Chikage Awashima

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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 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

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Tokunaga

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keiko Kishi

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gō Katō

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chisako Hara

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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

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

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Sakuramachi

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruo Mizuno

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an...

Genre: History

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

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Cast: Chikage Awashima

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

The last judgment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Inochi uruwashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

Ensemble comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Family

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

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Cast: Chikage Awashima

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

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Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

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Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku...

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Cast: Ichikawa Danjūrō XI

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi