Kinuyo Tanaka

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho — a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life ...

“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 ...

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who ...

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in ...

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband. Release: Phoenix 1947 JAPANESE ENSUBBED WEBRip x264-VXT General: mp4 | ...

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he ...

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, ...

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

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa ...

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship ...

A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party ...

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money ...

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she’s got a secret: she’s a widow with a son. Kozo and ...

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure ...

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 ...

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and ...

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides ...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to ...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her ...