Movies: Fujio Nagahama

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a lif...

Follows a bunch of school renegades and their downfall into criminality in a docu-drama style, completely refreshing for its time....

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns....

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility....

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō....

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Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan....

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without res...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition....

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan....

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction....

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered mast...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will lead to a long, dark night of the soul, while his lady love, a bar hostess, tries to cope with her ...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo....

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a...

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family....

1968 film...

1942 Japanese movie...