Movies

Otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives due of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and...

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier...

1956 japanese movie.

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

A unique literary work depicting the crisis in the love and physical relationship of the ordinary Shimura couple.

Japanese noir.

When a family comprised of a couple with one son is hurled into poverty when the businessman father loses his business, the mother and son move to...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man...

The story of five sisters.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...