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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

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

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

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 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

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

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

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

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

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 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

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

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Emoto

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

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