Ken Uehara Filmes

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the...

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

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 woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a...

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

1962 Japanese movie

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...