Movies

1961 Japanese movie

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...

1964 Japanese movie

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.