Kôji Mitsui

Kinuyo Tanaka

Shuji Sano

Chieko Murata

Eiko Takamatsu

Chyoko Fumitani

Toshinosuke Nagao	

Fumiko Okamura

Takeshi Sakamoto

Chishū Ryū

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son&#x27;s hospital bills.

L’âge d’or des studios japonais

A Hen in the Wind

Kaze no naka no mendori

VOST - HD

Toshiro Mifune

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kyōko Kagawa

Tatsuya Mihashi

Takashi Shimura

Yutaka Sada

Susumu Fujita

Kenjirô Ishiyama

Isao Kimura

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Hiroshi Unayama

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Takeshi Katô

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur&#x27;s son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

High and Low

天国と地獄

french

Japanese

Keiji Sada

Michiyo Aratama

Sō Yamamura

Seiji Miyaguchi

Chikage Awashima

Eitaro Ozawa

Ineko Arima

Akira Ishihama

Shinji Nambara

Toru Abe

Masao Mishima

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

The Human Condition - Part 1: No Greater Love

人間の條件

VOST - SD

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan&#x27;s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

The Human Condition - Part 3: A Soldier's Prayer

Eiji Okada

Kyōko Kishida

Hiroko Ito

Sen Yano

Ginzo Sekiguchi

Kiyohiko Ichihara	

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Nouveaux cinémas

Woman in the Dunes

Suna no onna

Masayuki Mori

Ichisaburo Sawamura

Sakae Ozawa

Kikue Mori

Mitsuko Mito

Machiko Kyō

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain

雨月物語

Chieko Naniwa

Ichirō Sugai

Eitarô Shindô

Kimiko Tachibana

Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Akitake Kôno

Masao Shimizu

Ken Mitsuda

Kazukimi Okuni

Yôko Kosono

Teruko Ômi

Masahiko Kato

Keiko Enami

Bontarô Akemi

In medieval 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.

Sansho the Bailiff

山椒大夫

Daisuke Katō

Keiju Kobayashi

Hideko Takamine

Noboru Nakaya

Mitsuko Kusabue

Akira Takarada

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

A Wanderer's Notebook

Hôrô-ki

Yûzô Kayama

Yôko Naitô

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Red Beard

赤ひげ

Sadako Sawamura

Tsukie Matsuura

Follows a woman&#x27;s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

The Life of Oharu

Saikaku ichidai onna

Sanae Takasugi

Mitsuo Nagata

Tomie Tsunoda

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Women of the Night

Yoru no onna tachi

Danko Ichikawa

Teiji Takahashi

Yûko Mochizuki

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

The Ballad of Narayama

楢山節考, Narayama bushikō

Komaki Kurihara

Yôko Takahashi

Takiko Mizunoe

Eiko Mizuhara

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 8.

Brothel No. 8

Sandakan hachibanshōkan bōkyō

Mieko Harada

Natsuko Kahara

Meiko Kaji

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.

Lullaby of the Earth

Daichi no komoriuta

Kuniko Miyake

A woman&#x27;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 by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko&#x27;s home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women&#x27;s rights.

Flame of My Love

わが恋は燃えぬ

Mariko Okada

Haruko Sugimura

Isuzu Yamada

Sumiko Kurishima

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn&#x27;t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Flowing

流れる

Nobuko Otowa

Kiyoko Hirai

Yūji Hori

Reiko Kongō

Eijirō Yanagi

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband&#x27;s family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Miss Oyu

お遊さま

Chieko Nakakita

Akihiko Katayama

After the loss of a beloved family member, a daughter returns from far away to her mother&#x27;s home in Japan; mother and daughter attempt to work past the guilt and distance in order to reconnect, each in their own ways.

Mother

おかあさん

Shin Saburi

Masayoshi Ôtsuka

Shinichi Himori

Haruhiko Tsuda

Seiji Nishimura

Shinyô Nara

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

There Was a Father

父ありき

Kuniko Igawa

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she&#39;s a stripper.

Carmen Comes Home

Karumen kokyo ni kaeru

Yôko Sugi

Hisako Yamane

Mie Kitahara

Kō Mishima

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.

The Moon Has Risen

月は上りぬ

Tatsuo Saïto

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Hideo Sugawara

Tokkan Kozo

Teruyo Hayami

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn&#x27;t the most important man in his workplace.

I Was Born But...

大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど

Shin'ichirō Mikami

Shima Iwashita

Toyoko Takahashi

Nobuo Nakamura

Teruo Yoshida

Noriko Maki

Eijirō Tōno

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

An Autumn Afternoon

秋刀魚の味

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Tokyo Story

東京物語

Kokuten Kodo

Kuniko Ikawa

Hiroshi Nihonyanagi	

Toyo Takahashi

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Early Summer

麦秋

A Hen in the Wind

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