Movies

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

An entertainment film set in a movie studio, featuring songs and hidden talents performed by male and female stars.

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high...

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Two college girls who work part-time as shrine maidens swap their names with private investigators conducting a marriage background check, throwing...

Pu Zhe, younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko, daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between...

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...