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Women's Victory
Japanese Movie - 19468.7
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following…
Flame of My Love
Japanese Movie - 19497.8
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded…
There Was a Father
Japanese Movie - 19427.9
A father and his son, a son and his father. Horikawa is a widower, a teacher, and a good father to Ryohei, who's about 10. After a tragedy, Horikawa resigns from teaching and takes Ryohei from Tokyo to the town of Ueno,…
Stray Dog
Japanese Movie - 19497.8
A very hot day in Tokyo. Someone stole from a young detective his gun. What will happen next? Will it be used for a crime? After "Drunken Angel" next noir film directed by Kurosawa Akira.
Drunken Angel
Japanese Movie - 19487.8
Sanada is an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga, after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces him…
Late Spring
Japanese Movie - 19497.6
Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about…
Snow Trail
Japanese Movie - 19477.7
The story follows the fate of three bank robbers on the run from the police, who hide out high up in the snowy Japanese mountains in a remote lodge inhabited by an old man, his granddaughter and an intrepid mountaineer…
No Regrets for Our Youth
Japanese Movie - 19467.7
In Akira Kurosawa’s first film after the end of World War II, future beloved Ozu regular Setsuko Hara gives an astonishing performance as Yukie, the only female protagonist in Kurosawa’s body of work and one of his…
The Portrait
Japanese Movie - 19487.6
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
The Quiet Duel
Japanese Movie - 19497.6
During the war, young doctor Fujisaki, got infected with syphilis from the blood of a patient. When he got back home he decided to leave his fiancee. Meanwhile, doctor Fujisaki and his father took to work new nurse.…
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Japanese Movie - 19477.6
Tashiro finds an abandoned boy in a war-torn village and takes him home in an attempt to get some neighbor to adopt him. No one seems to accept responsibility even for one night until the unwilling Otane widow stays…
A Hen in the Wind
Japanese Movie - 19487.6
The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo, prices are…
Yotsuya Kaidan
Japanese Movie - 19497.5
This version removed the ghostly elements and presented Oiwa as an apparition of her husband's guilty psyche. ~~ Adapted from a kabuki play by Tsuruya Nanboku IV.
Along the Sungari River
Chinese Movie - 19477.4
Set in Manchuria, which was invaded by the Japanese in 1931. A pair of lovers end up in as slaves in a coal mine but plot a rebellion.
One Wonderful Sunday
Japanese Movie - 19477.5
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams…
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Japanese Movie - 19477.4
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui and leaves his family to be with her while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent. (Source:…
Sanshiro Sugata
Japanese Movie - 19437.4
Sanshiro is a young man who decides to enter a jujitsu school, the reason he came to the city. There, one night he sees a man using a judo skill, and falls in love with the art, begging the master to teach him. But judo…
Children of the Beehive
Japanese Movie - 19487.3
The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black market work for a…
Nobuko
Japanese Movie - 19407.3
The film follows Komiyana Nobuko, who moves to a new town to teach however the school want's Nobuko to change and conform in order to fit in with their ideals which includes getting rid of her accent.
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