Reikō Tani

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Cast: Shozaburo Abe

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tokihiko Okada

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

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Cast: Michiko Kuwano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Shinobu

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Shirota

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

If you throw this child away

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Komuparu Minamisato