Chishū Ryū Movies

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

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....

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.

Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her...

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

1955 Japanese movie

An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...

Lost silent film

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

The fourth instalment in the Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei series.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex...

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

Young and beautiful Matsuko lives alone with her father in old Kamakura. Matsuko experienced love once, with Munehiro, who married another girl. But...

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...