7.4
The Ball at the Anjo House
IMDb: 7.4 1947 89 min
After Japan’s loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold ...
6.9
Love New and Old
IMDb: 6.9 1961 81 min
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child. Release: Love New and ...
8.2
Rashomon
IMDb: 8.2 1950 88 min
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the ...
7.1
A Design for Dying
IMDb: 7.1 1961 110 min
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as ...
8.5
I’ve Heard the Ammonite Murmur
IMDb: 8.5 1992 70 min
Ammonites were a kind of snail-like precursor to today’s mollusks, common in the seas of the Cretaceous period, many millions of years ago. ...
7.4
The Heart
IMDb: 7.4 1955 120 min
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained ...
6.9
Elegy of the North
IMDb: 6.9 1957 117 min
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife. Release: Banka 1957 General: avi | ...
8.0
The Bad Sleep Well
IMDb: 8.0 1960 150 min
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...
7.7
Floating Clouds
IMDb: 7.7 1955 123 min
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. ...
7.3
Night Drum
IMDb: 7.3 1958 95 min
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the ...
6
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
IMDb: 6 1945 83 min
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to ...
7.2
The Balloon
IMDb: 7.2 1956 109 min
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a ...
6.7
Sun Above, Death Below
IMDb: 6.7 1968 87 min
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his ...
7.3
This Way, That Way
IMDb: 7.3 1952 92 min
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up ...
7.2
Love Letter
IMDb: 7.2 1953 98 min
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people. Release: Koibumi AKA Love ...
7.8
Forever a Woman
IMDb: 7.8 1955 109 min
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a ...
7.3
Brother and Sister
IMDb: 7.3 1953 86 min
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal ...
7.0
Alone on the Pacific
IMDb: 7.0 1963 97 min
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his ...
7.3
The Idiot
IMDb: 7.3 1951 166 min
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love ...
8.3
Ugetsu
IMDb: 8.3 1953 96 min
In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants in Nakanogo want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his ...