Movies

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

A 1948 Japanese film.

The Glorious Days

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

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

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro Kawaguchi for Hibari Misora to celebrate her...

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

Inochi uruwashi