Movies

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a...

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...