Movies: So Yamamura

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The detectives had a bad feeling which hit the mark, an unidentified drowned body is identified as Hirasaka. S...

An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother. What secrets are these men hiding?...

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy....

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....

1963 Japanese movie...

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival....

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house....

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his daughter....

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband....

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While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring new life to this timeless tale. Starting with the corrupt practices of Lord Kira and Yanagi-sawa, th...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers....

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but ......

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle....

1948 Japanese movie...

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while finding little happiness when he begins a liaison with an older woman....

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair....

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō....

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate....