Chishu Ryu

A girl who’d left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing ...

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells ...

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed ...

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college ...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child. Release: Snow Flurry 1959 General: mkv | ...

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend ...

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor ...

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family ...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural ...

The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch. Release: Haha wo kowazuya ...

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live. Release: Dekigokoro aka Passing fancy 1933 General: mkv | ...

On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...

Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music ...

When a young man inherits his father’s lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs. Release: ...

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his ...

When Tora-san’s infatuation with his nephew’s school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, ...

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side. Release: Otoko wa tsurai yo Torajiro ...

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister ...

In 1973, Shochiku Studios released Tai Kato’s updated two-part version of Miyamoto Musashi, this time with Hideki Takahashi in the title ...

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts. Release: The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice 1952 CRITERION JAPANESE 720p BluRay ...