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The Ballad of Narayama 1958 In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially enforced policy in which relatives carry 70 year old family members up Narayama mountain t

Love Letter 1953 This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke Kinoshita, Koibumi explore the wounds of war, the li

Love Under the Crucifix 1962 A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens

Ruten no ohi 1960 A film adaptation of the autobiography of Aishinkakura Hiro, who lived a tumultuous life as the consort of Fuketsu, the younger brother of Emperor Puyi of Manchukuo

The Moon Has Risen 1955 Mokichi is the widower father of three daughters, with whom he has been living on the premises of a temple since the war All three daughters become involved in varied complicated relationships The sisters and their attached me

Onna bakari no yoru 1961 A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti prostitution law

The Eternal Breasts 1955 Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce

Munekata kyodai 1950 Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit Shes always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing Now he is back and Mariko Setsukos sister tries to reu

Munekata kyodai 1950 Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit Shes always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing Now he is back and Mariko Setsukos sister tries to reu

Brothel No 8 1974 A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan

Alone on the Pacific 1963 Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination

Wedding Ring 1950 Noriko Kuki is married to Michio Kuki, who is bedridden with illness Though she loves her husband, Noriko is unhappy with the loss of intimacy in their lives She discovers she is attracted to Takeshi Ema, her husbands doctor and tha

Shinshaku Yotsuya kaidan kohen 1949 In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemons apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosukes constant hounding

Ghost of Yotsuya 1949 Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband

Ugetsu 1953 In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjuro travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small

Sansho the Bailiff 1954 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

Ibo kyoudai 1957 In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946

Utamaro and His Five Women 1946 Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers And, occasionally, his a

Mother 1952 Adopted from a prize winning school essay on the subject of My Mother, upon being widowed a mother with a little help from her elder daughter has to run the family laundry on her own The second daughter, however, has to be sent to live wi

Kôge Ichibu: Waremokô no shô (1964) AKA The Scent of Incense. After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

The Neighbors Wife and Mine (1931) A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.

Phoenix (1947) A young war widow remembers her short time with her husband.

Ginza Cosmetics (1951) A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of G

The Life of Oharu (1952) A fifty-year-old prostitute, no longer able to attract men, looks back on her sad life. Once a lady-in-waiting at the imperial court at Kyoto, Oharu fell in love with, and became the lover of, a man below her station. They we