Akiko Nomura

A man is murdered after stealing documents from the Olympic Department of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Chiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her home so she is offered by her eldest son, Ryoichi to live with him and his family. But her children are disappointed to hear that Chiyo has decided to become a live-in housekeeper. Then her eldest daughter Setsuko announced that Chiyo has had an offer of marriage. It is from the widower Kurosaki who had been a friend to Chiyo's deceased husband. Kurosaki runs a small company and has no children but has enough life savings. However, second daughter Tomoe, and youngest child, Yoko, are opposed to it. The siblings begin to argue. Meanwhile, Kurosaki tells his sister Namiko that he has decided to remarry. She is furious because he refuses to tell her anything about Chiyo. Thus, she takes it upon herself to find out about Chiyo and soon has a confrontation with her. Around that time, Kurosaki’s company is about to go bankrupt...

Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.

군마현이라는 지방의 자치단체에서 자본을 출자해 만든 작품. 이전 작품에 비해 밝은 모습의 영화다. 산 사이로 강이 흐르는 시골 마을 히토스지의 어느 농가에 남미에서 산을 타다 사고를 당한 타 쿠지가 무의식 상태로 누워있다. 타쿠지의 친구 카미 무라는 어렸을 때 타쿠지와 함께 놀았던 오두막 을 찾곤 한다. 한편 마을 어귀의 바에서 일하는 동남아 여자들 중 티아라는 여인이 있는데 그녀 는 일본에 오기 전 홍수로 아들을 잃었다. 계절이 바뀌면서 마을 사람들이 티아에 대해 알게될 즈음 티아는 타쿠지를 알게 된다. 여름이 오고 결국 타쿠지는 죽는데, 티아는 망자의 세계에서 산자를 부르는 소리인 마쯔 가제 공연을 보고나서 혼자 숲으로 걸어가 그날 밤을 버려진 오두막에 서 보낸다. 한편, 타쿠지의 오랜 친구인 키무라는 만월을 바라보다가 타쿠지 의 영혼이 산으로 돌아왔다고 느끼고 새벽에 산으로 올라간다. 오두막 에서 만난 둘은 벌써 오래전에 마른 것으로 알고 있던 샘에서 나는 물소리를 듣는다.

Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei's Criminal Investigation Division 1, Detective KUMADA Tomekichi arrives from the Toyama Prefectural Police. KUMADA is disconcerted by Denbei's position that murderers nowadays do not need a plausible motive, but gradually adapts to Denbei's unusual methods of investigation.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they cannot be without each other. Will the forbidden love affair move forward and can they finally be with each other?

Horror story about a girl who is shadowed by an invisible man.

여행사에 근무하는 하마지마는 결혼 10년차로 아이는 없고 아내와의 생활은 습관적이며 무미건조하기만 하다. 어느 날 퇴근길 버스에서 어린 시절 같은 동네에서 지내던 야스코라는 여인을 우연히 만나게 되고, 아내에게서는 볼 수 없는 그녀의 다정함에 점점 빠지게 된다. 한 편 야스코에게는 켄이치라는 6살 된 아들이 있었고 하마지마는 켄이치와 친해지기 위해 부단히 노력한다. 그러나 켄이치를 대할수록 묘한 동질감과 더불어 이상한 두려움도 느끼게 되는데...

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and she asks him to protect her and her diamond.

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the garden, he sees a beautiful schoolgirl who lives there. After they coincidentally meet again they fall for each other, but she is already engaged.

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ...

나가사키에 있는 독일의료원에서 의학공부를 마치고 에도로 돌아온 야스모토는 시골 병원에서 인턴 과정을 밟게 된다. 귀족들을 상대하는 왕립의료원에서 일하기를 원했던 그는 하층민들이 주로 오는 공동 진료소로 오게 되자 불만을 품게 된다. 하지만 자만심으로 가득 차 있던 야스모토는 ‘붉은 수염’이라 불리는 시골 병원장의 진정한 모습에 점차 동화되어 가면서 진정한 의술을 배우게 된다.

고이즈미 야쿠모의 괴기담 중에서 4편의 에피소드를 영상으로 옮긴 옴니버스 영화. 출세를 위해 아내를 버리고 떠났던 무사(‘흑발’), 눈보라 속에서 설녀를 만나 목숨을 건진 청년(‘설녀’), 귀신을 피하기 위해 불경을 몸에 써넣는 맹인 악사(‘귀 없는 호이치’), 찻잔 속에서 기묘한 얼굴을 본 무사(‘찻잔 속’)의 이야기가 오싹한 공포와 함께 펼쳐진다. 환상적인 색채와 표현적인 세트를 이용한 뛰어난 미술과 촬영이 돋보이며, 다케미쓰 도루의 실험적인 음악 또한 탁월하다. 에 이어 두 번째로 칸영화제 심사위원특별상을 수상했다.

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

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day.