Movies

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...