Movies

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuichi has his...

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi,...

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.

Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his professor. There he meets his beautiful daughter (Mie...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

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

As an orphan, Yamauchi Fumiko was taken in by the politician Kawabe Sotaro and raised by him. Perhaps because of their similar circumstances, she...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...