Movies

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

A young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

1946 Japanese movie.

A judo movie.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.

Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was...

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...