Natsuko Kahara

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

菅原文太主演による刑事ドラマ。矢崎達朗は、警視庁特殊銃隊の警部補。特殊銃隊とは銃器を持った凶悪犯に対応するためのライフル部隊のことである。矢崎は、昭和45年のシージャック事件の犯人を射殺した経験を持っている。妻子と幸せな家庭生活をおくっているが、仏壇にシージャック犯の位牌を置き、毎日手を合わせることを忘れていない。職務とはいえ、人を殺したことに苦いこだわりを持っていた。そんな矢崎に再び辛い試練を強いる事件が発生する。　

13歳にして売春宿に売られた少女が、苛酷な運命に耐えたくましく生きつづける姿を描く。四国の山奥で祖母とふたりで暮らしていた少女りん。13歳のとき、祖母が死に、瀬戸内海の小さな島に売春婦として売られる。やがて初潮を迎えたりんは客をとらされる。以来、りんは狂ったように働きつづけた。

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.

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.

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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.

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper...

日本未利用土地開発公団の副総裁、岩淵の娘佳子と、秘書の西幸一の披露宴が執り行なわれようとしていた。しかし、この西という男、実は5年前、新庁舎の建設に絡む不正入札疑惑で自ら命を絶ち事件の幕引きを図った課長補佐・古谷の一人息子だった……

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.

夫を亡くした圭子は、外国人マスターが経営する銀座のバー“ライラック”の雇われマダムだった。よく店に来ていた利権屋の美濃部が、かつて圭子の下で働いていたユリに店を持たせ、そちらへ頻繁に出入りしているようだ。マスターからはユリのように体を張って売り上げを回復させろと言われてしまう。ある日、狂言自殺をするつもりだったユリが本当に死亡した。葬儀の席で圭子は美濃部に食ってかかるが、血を吐いて倒れてしまう。酒の飲み過ぎで胃潰瘍にかかっていたのだ。やがて圭子は客に体を許すようになるが、その度に裏切られてしまう。

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

旅回りの駒十郎一座の乗った船が港に着いた。駒十郎は一膳飯屋にお芳を訪ね、その昔二人がもうけた清も今では郵便局に勤めていると知って安心する。清には駒十郎はお芳の兄ということになっていた。駒十郎の連れ合いのすみ子は、清のことを不審に思い加代に清を誘惑してくれるよう頼む。加代と清は恋仲になり、それを知った駒十郎は加代とすみ子を激しく叱りつける。客入りの悪くなった一座は解散することになり、駒十郎と清は加代を巡って対立する。お芳は清に駒十郎が実の父親だと打ち明けるが、清は許さず、駒十郎は気が抜けたように立ち去る。駅に行くとすみ子が待っていて、二人は車中の人となるのだった。

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

潮風の吹きただよう小さな港町。飲食店を営むおきんの家の屋根裏部屋では、一人娘のおコウが高校卒業試験の準備に夢中だった。その頃、町で興行していたストリップ劇団は不入り続きで、座員のはるみは宿屋の女将おしまの口入れでおきんの店で働き、男たちの人気を集めていた。数週間後、卒業証書を手に帰って来たおコウは、屋根裏部屋ではるみと男客の、あられもない姿を見て驚いた。事情を知ったおきんは、はるみに小言を云ったものの、おコウに世間並の娘の暮しをさせたい余り、元芸者の

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. The final story tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.

A 1948 Japanese film.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.