Tsuruko Mano Filmes

An Ishiro Honda film.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...

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...

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...

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese war-era film

An Ishiro Honda film.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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