A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

Japanese drama

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more...

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and...

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko...

1957 Japanese movie

The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first...

The drama is about the suffering of two families whose babies were mistaken for each other in the hospital.

A light-hearted comedy about love, fortune telling and songs of life that begins when a couple of sisters and brothers meet. It depicts a group of...

The story revolves around a bar and a poor church in downtown Yokohama , a port town . Kazami Yobuko is a singer and hostess at the bar . The bar...