Movies

Film directed by Yasuki Chiba, based on the novel of the same name by Tatsuzou Ishikawa.

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

1950 Japanese film

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a young student, Murakoshi Kinya. Determined...

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable...

1961 Japanese movie

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals