Movies

A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.

A film adaptation of the María Luz Incident from the early Meiji period that sparked widespread public debate.

Japanese drama film.

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952...

Baseball movie.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.

A man and a woman whose love is forbidden due to a feud between their parents resolve to die together and head to the island of Sado.

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is...

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in...

World War II era Japanese adaptation of the popular French play Marius, from over a decade before. A youth is torn between his girlfriend and his...