Kumeko Urabe Filmes

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both...

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Directed by Minoru Murata.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.