Fumiko Okamura Movies

An Ishiro Honda film.

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman. She refuses,...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...