Setsuko Hara

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 ...

A Japanese wartime propaganda drama made nearly a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor to celebrate the victory. Release: Battle of Pearl Harbor ...

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but the children have little time for them. Release: Tokyo Story 1953 ...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child. Release: Tokyo ...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband. Release: Meshi AKA ...

Mourning the death of her father, a grieving daughter (Hara, Setsuko) meets one of his students (Saburi, Shin) and the two set out to travel to ...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry — that is, until her aunt Masa ...

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but ...

The story of an airport and its air-traffic control crew in a remote northern-Japanese town. Three of the air-traffic controllers are female; one ...

The story centres around a border security team in 1935 Korea. Upon receiving new recruits they hold a welcome party including a restaurant owner ...

A young woman from a wealthy family that has fallen on hard times seeks out the president of a car factory for a husband. Release: Ojosan ...

Aoi sanmyaku (青い山脈), literally: The Blue Mountains, is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. Its theme was sung by ...

The husband, Ryotaro Namiki (Shuji Sano), works in the sales department of a cosmetics company and suffers from a bad stomach. His relationship ...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later. Release: The Blue Mountains Part II 1949-REQ General: avi | 1.59 GB | 01:30:42 ...

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 ...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine ...

The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly ...

This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The ...

A mother gets help from her late husband’s three friends in order to get her daughter married to a well-settled man. Release: Akibiyori AKA ...

At the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Education, the former “mountain filmer” Fanck directed this “cultural feature ...