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The Lady of Musashino
Japanese Movie - 19516.8
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
The Kingdom and the Beauty
Hong Kong Movie - 19598.3
The Kingdom and the Beauty is a 1959 Hong Kong musical-drama film set in Imperial China.
Kiku to Isamu
Japanese Movie - 19598.2
Immediately after the Second World War, sister Kiku and brother Isamu, whose mother was a prostitute and the father was a GI, live with their grandmother in the country. Because their color and hair are different from…
The Heart
Japanese Movie - 19558.2
At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt. It is an adaptation of a…
Tokyo Twilight
Japanese Movie - 19578.1
Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her parent's home. Both sisters are…
The Tattered Wings
Japanese Movie - 19558.0
A young widow, made world-weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
Hiroshima
Japanese Movie - 19538.0
Brilliant retelling of the Day in Hiroshima the day the bomb dropped. A bit heavy handed at times, yet extremely realistic (source: IMDb)
Early Summer
Japanese Movie - 19517.9
Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she’s still single at the advanced age of 28.…
The Boy Who Came Back
Japanese Movie - 19587.9
A hot-headed hoodlum struggles to make a clean break with his past.
Twenty-Four Eyes
Japanese Movie - 19547.9
The movie follows the career of a schoolteacher named Hisako Oishi in Shodoshima during the rise and fall of Japanese ultra-nationalism in the beginning of the Showa period. The narrative begins in 1928 with the teacher's…
Sansho the Bailiff
Japanese Movie - 19548.0
In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
The Ballad of Narayama
Japanese Movie - 19587.9
The Kabuki-styled film tells a story about a small village in the mountains suffering from scarcity of food, upholds the tradition of carrying the elderly who reach the ago of seventy and abandoning them on the mountainside…
Aozora Musume
Japanese Movie - 19577.9
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his…
Good Morning
Japanese Movie - 19597.9
Two little boys live with their parents in a close-quartered suburban neighborhood. There is a misunderstanding among the next-door neighbor ladies. Meanwhile, after an argument with their parents--they want a TV set,…
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Japanese Movie - 19557.7
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen.…
Sound of the Mountain
Japanese Movie - 19547.9
The businessman Ogata Shingo works with his son Shuichi, who is his secretary, and they live together in the suburb with their wives Yasuko and Kikuko respectively. Shuichi has a love affair and a loveless marriage with…
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Japanese Movie - 19557.9
It is the second film of the Samurai Trilogy, wchich follows the adventures of Miyamoto Musashi as he wanders through Japan learning the ways of a samurai. The first part of the trilogy is Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto…
The Life of Oharu
Japanese Movie - 19527.9
A one-time concubine of a daimyo (and mother of a later daimyo) struggles to escape the stigma of having been sold into prostitution by her father. (Source: Wikipedia) ~~ Adapted from the novel "The Life of an Amorous…
Untamed
Japanese Movie - 19577.8
Directed by Naruse Mikio. Story of the woman who is going to follow her own feelings and ambitions in a very strict society.
The Burmese Harp
Japanese Movie - 19567.9
At the end of World War II, in Burma, Private Mizushima is a harp player in his platoon. When he is separated from his fellow soldiers and believed to be dead, Mizushima disguises himself as a Buddist monk and finds…
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