Misako Watanabe

As in so many other countries, the 1960s are a time of cultural change and upheaval in Japan. Political protesters take to the streets, social ...

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû ...

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank. Release: ...

A gritty troubled youth drama, fuelled no doubt by the taiyozoku (sun tribe) fever than current. Release: Koroshita no wa dare da 1957 tt0050606 ...

Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils ...

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a ...

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts ...

Wada Koji fights to become a boxing champion. Release: Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab 1961 Seijun Suzuki tt0054998 General: avi | 1343 Kbps | 1.68 ...

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old ...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo’s underworld explodes with violence. Release: Youth of the Beast 1963 ...

When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. Pork, miso soup combo, ...

Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, ‘The ...

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. ...

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she ...

Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can’t focus on extended ...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai ...

‘Face’ is a fascinating and difficult to categorize movie. Naomi Fujiyama gives an impressive performance (her movie debut) as the ...

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he’s Tamon, an upright, ...

Shokichi, a shop owner and middle-aged widower, could never forget your first love. The second floor of the shop is an art gallery where his ...