Natsuko Kahara Movies

A TV writer and a director stranded in a rural town witness the young villagers’ tangled romances. Despite parental feuds and arranged...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

1960 Japanese movie

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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...

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

1959 Japanese movie

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.