Jun Yasumoto

Reiko es viuda, su esposo Morita ha muerto en la guerra, dejándola al cargo del negocio familiar, que cada vez pierde más clientes a manos de los grandes supermercados. Koji, hermano de Morita, regresa de Tokio, aparentemetne dispuesto a echar una mano pero complicará más las cosas.

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

Drama sobre la vida de cinco hijas y la hijastra del dueño de una tienda.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

Una madre soltera de campo que cría a un niño de 6º grado llega a Tokio, deja al niño para vivir con la familia de su tío, dirige una tienda de comestibles en dificultades y trabaja en una posada local. El chico se hace amigo de una chica, que resulta ser la hija del posadero...

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."

En una familia de clase media de Tokio, una de las hijas (Setsuko Hara) ha enviudado joven, y todos los miembros desean que vuelva a casarse. La madre es una anciana viuda que vive en una casa grande del centro de Tokio. Los hijos están deseando vender la casa, pero no saben qué hacer con su madre.

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.

Tras años recorriendo multitud de lugares, labrando su reputación como el más grande luchador del Japón, Takezo regresa a Kioto para enfrentarse al líder de la más prestigiosa escuela de samurais de la región. Como demostración de su valor, Takezo se dirige deliberadamente hacia una emboscada preparada por los seguidores de la escuela, mientras el joven y brillante luchador Sasaki Kojiro le observa, con el convencimiento de que puede derrotar a Takezo...

Dos amigos dejan su pueblo para combatir con su ejército. Ambos, tras una derrota en el frente, se cobijan en la solitaria casa de Oko, una viuda que vive con su hija. Matachachi dejará que Oko le seduzca y, junto con ella y su hija se irá a Tokio, olvidando a su prometida...

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

The Forgotten Children

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

A 1942 film.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.

Japanese film.

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Se habla de una vieja vasija con aspecto pobre que contiene un mapa indicando el lugar donde se oculta el tesoro de un millón de ryo. Desconocedor de este secreto, el hijo mayor de los Yagyu la regala a su hermano menor, creyéndola una baratija, y este a su vez la vende a unos chatarreros. Una serie de casualidades llevarán la vasija a manos de Yasu, un chico pequeño cuyo padre ha sido asesinado. Será Tange Sazen quien le de asilo en su casa, donde cuidará de él

Japanese historical film.