Movies

A coming-of-age film.

A young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is...

A heartwarming tale of romance and thrills featuring an aging groom who discovers the potential of an exceptional racehorse hidden within an ordinary...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Set in the midst of the Satsuma Rebellion, this story depicts the sadness of a woman’s heart. Though she hates the Imperial Army captain who...

1956 Daiei movie

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...