Movies

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose...

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

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...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster,...

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more...