Movies

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

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...

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

1962 Japanese movie

Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei...

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk...

Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...

Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother, who gave birth to...

A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.