Yaeko Mizutani

1962 Japanese movie

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

An early Japanese film

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Directed in 1921

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

Could I But Live

1953 Japanese movie