Tsuruko Mano Movies

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

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

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

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

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa