
Family Diary
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...
Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...
The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...