Movies

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his...

A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...