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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

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 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

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

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

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.

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

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

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daijirô Harada

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takako Irie

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

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

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

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

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 retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Aoki

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomomi Satô