Movies

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...

The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status....

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even...

Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the...

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film...

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.