7.8
A Story of Floating Weeds
IMDb: 7.8 1934 86 min
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his ...
7.0
Yellow Crow
IMDb: 7.0 1957 104 min
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho — a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life ...
7.2
Tokyo Chorus
IMDb: 7.2 1931 91 min
Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his ...
6.9
The Dancing Girl of Izu
IMDb: 6.9 1933 94 min
“The Dancing Girl of Izu” tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling ...
7.1
Every-Night Dreams
IMDb: 7.1 1933 64 min
In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess ...
7.3
Wild Geese
IMDb: 7.3 1953 104 min
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man’s mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age. ...
6.4
The Lady and the Beard
IMDb: 6.4 1931 75 min
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity. Release: ...
7.1
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
IMDb: 7.1 1949 97 min
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even ...
6.4
Jubilation Street
IMDb: 6.4 1944 73 min
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. Release: ...
7.5
Summer Clouds
IMDb: 7.5 1958 128 min
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He ...
7.3
Passing Fancy
IMDb: 7.3 1933 100 min
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 | ...
7.1
The Other Woman
IMDb: 7.1 1961 106 min
In “The Other Woman” the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and ...
6.9
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
IMDb: 6.9 1932 86 min
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: ...
7.1
What Did the Lady Forget?
IMDb: 7.1 1937 71 min
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a ...
7.6
An Inn in Tokyo
IMDb: 7.6 1935 80 min
Kihachi, an unemployed worker, wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo’s Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko and Masako. ...
7.1
Apart from You
IMDb: 7.1 1933 61 min
For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In ...
7.8
The Only Son
IMDb: 7.8 1936 87 min
A poor factory worker, visiting the Tokyo son she has skimped to educate, finds even a college degree doesn’t make a difference in ...
7.0
Nobuko
IMDb: 7.0 1940 90 min
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods. Release: Nobuko 1940 DVDRip ...