Natsuko Kahara Movies

Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets a teacher and falls...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama to New York, where the former runs in the New...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Salaryman comedy.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

1974 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Modern comedy.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

A 1948 Japanese film.

The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying goods directly from wholesalers. During his stay,...

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

The fourth instalment in the Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei series.