Tsuruko Mano Movies

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...

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

An Ishiro Honda film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

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

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Japanese war-era film

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...