Yoshikazu Ōtsuki

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

1962 Japanese movie

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

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...

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

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

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...

Japanese drama film.

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...