Nobuko Otowa

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried ...

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and ...

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with ...

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the ...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre ...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, ...

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a “red lion’s mane”, a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of ...

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura ...

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night. Release: ...

Michio Yamada (Daijiro Yamada), a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a ...

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan. Release: The Life of ...

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to ...

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai), who has returned ...

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

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy ...

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 single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family, runs a struggling ...

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon. Release: The Last War 1961 UNKRip ...

Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body, fighting government ...

Adaptation of Natsume Soseki’s classic novel in a modern setting. Release: The Heart 1973 DVDRip x264-HANDJOB General: mkv | 1.03 GB | ...