Akiko Kazami Movies

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

A conflict between parents and their delinquent daughter.

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

1945 Japanese movie

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

1945 Japanese movie

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those...

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company...

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the...

A husband and wife, who have not had sex in three years, both fall into extra-marital affairs.

The investigation team of the police department is chasing a vicious criminal who kidnaps children, the key to catching the villain this time is the...

Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.