Tomio Aoki

Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a ...

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he ...

Takahashi finds a creative way to avoid doing his revision in this roguish comedy reminiscent of Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman. Release: I ...

The 3rd film of the famous “Wataridori” (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with ...

The story of 3 Men who served together in the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. The story is told in flashbacks from modern day Japan to scenes ...

A group of five college students decide to jinx a bicycle race in their favor and claim the money to pay off their debts, but when the illegal ...

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart. Release: Pure Emotions of ...

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as ...

The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers, burdened by societal restrictions, prejudices and straitened economic ...

Two rival runners compete in a military exercise and later, at an overnight inn where they stop to rest, meet a young woman whose little girl is ...

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new ...

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his ...

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle. Release: Tokkan Kozo AKA A Straightforward Boy 1929 DVDRip x264-HANDJOB General: ...

Jôji is a boxer barred from the ring; Saeko is a singer whose voice is gone. Lost souls, they meet one night by a quay; she may be thinking of ...

Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe ...

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live. Release: Dekigokoro aka Passing fancy 1933 General: mkv | ...

On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a ...

Kihachi, an unemployed worker, wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo’s Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko and Masako. ...

For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In ...