Movies

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

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...

Pinku from 1969.

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

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...

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...