Movies:
- 1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs7.91960HD
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for...
- 1931
Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Tokyo Chorus6.61931HD
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job....
- 1961
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer8.31961HD
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sn...
- 1964
Yearning (1964)
Yearning8.11964HD
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detri...
- 1954
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Twenty-Four Eyes7.61954HD
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances....
- 1952
Lightning (1952)
Lightning7.11952HD
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected....
- 1958
The Rickshaw Man (1958)
The Rickshaw Man7.11958HD
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....
- 1961
Immortal Love (1961)
Immortal Love7.51961HD
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over thre...
- 1955
Floating Clouds (1955)
Floating Clouds7.71955HD
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes....
- 1953
The Wild Geese (1953)
The Wild Geese6.31953HD
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age....
- 1962
A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
A Wanderer's Notebook7.11962HD
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughte...
- 1948
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow (1948)
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Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers from tuberculosis, feels an unbearable love for Akiko, who takes great care of him during his visits. ...
- 1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka6.81967HD
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments...
- 1969
Devil's Temple (1969)
Devil's Temple6.41969HD
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the travelin...
- 1961
Happiness of Us Alone (1961)
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The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys....
- 1941
Horse (1941)
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Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale....
- 1963
A Woman's Life (1963)
A Woman's Life7.11963HD
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
- 1956
Flowing (1956)
Flowing7.11956HD
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of ge...
- 1950
The Munekata Sisters (1950)
The Munekata Sisters6.91950HD
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reu...
- 1961
The Other Woman (1961)
The Other Woman6.21961HD
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother....