Akihiko Katayama Movies

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

Japanese film.

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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...

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

1956 Japanese movie

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Japanese musical.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...