Noriko Sengoku Movies

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...

Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to...

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

Bored Hatamoto film #20

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective...