Nobuko Otowa Movies

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

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.

It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

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

1958 Japanese movie

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

1954 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

1962 Japanese movie

A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...