Movies

1962 Japanese movie

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and...

1962 Japanese movie

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him,...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

1950 Japanese movie

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Japanese drama film.

1958 Japanese movie

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

Japanese musical.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.