Nobuko Otowa Movies

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

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

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

Japanese drama film.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

1980 Japanese film.

A woman looks after her father in law.

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn...