Nobuko Otowa Movies

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

1962 Japanese movie

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...