Movies

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered...

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...

1946 japanese movie.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Not far from Yurakucho, on the riverbank, stands the Nishida Clinic, with signs advertising internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology. The...

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

A musical film marking Yoshiko Yamaguchi's debut at Daiei.

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

An entertainment film set in a movie studio, featuring songs and hidden talents performed by male and female stars.

One night, a college student is found dead, his body charred black. The victim’s girlfriend, Nobuko, vanishes right before the eyes of the...

A unique tale of romance and action in which an escaped convict fights villains to save his comrade’s sister from danger, only to fall in...