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While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Sumida

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinobu Ôtake

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Kanze

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hikari Ishida

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

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Cast: Kō Nishimura

After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak...

Genre: Family

Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...

Genre: War

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura