Mitsuko Mito

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio’s novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the ...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyko Flowers. Release: I Will Buy You 1956 JAPANESE ...

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects. Release: There Was A ...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease ...

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up ...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ ...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan. Release: Ballad of the Cart 1959 General: mkv | 2 ...

Reikichi Kawamura is an executive at his father’s security firm; he knows he has responsibilities, but he’s not terribly enamored of ...

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 ...

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women’s university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a ...

Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she’d join him more frequently, but she detests ...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. Release: ...

Genji Monogatori (A Tale of Genji) was another copacetic collaboration between Japanese director Kosaburo Yoshimura and screenwriter Kaneto ...

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

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka ...

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 ...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan’s greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has ...

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan’s ...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior. Release: Samurai I ...