Nobuko Otowa Movies

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.