Movies

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

1945 Japanese movie

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

1945 Japanese movie