Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.4/101953HD
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
Noriko Honma
Battle of the Japan Sea
Battle of the Japan Sea6/101969HDJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...
The Whole Family Works
The Whole Family Works6.2/101939HDFather of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...
Summer Clouds
Summer Clouds7.5/101958HDA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
Husband and Wife
Husband and Wife6.6/101953HDA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
A Wife's Heart
A Wife's Heart6.8/101956HDKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
All About Marriage
All About Marriage0/101958HDUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
Someday I'll Know
The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl0/101951HDThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
Composition Class
The Big Boss
The Big Boss6.3/101959HDRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...
Marital Relations
Marital Relations5.2/101955HDThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen0/101957HDUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Kiriko no unmei
Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard0/101953HDGirls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Life of a Country Doctor
Life of a Country Doctor0/101960HDA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...
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Street of Violence
Street of Violence6.5/101950HDAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Last of the Wild Ones
Last of the Wild Ones0/101954HDA legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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The Ataka Family
The Ataka Family5.5/101952HDSoichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...
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Adolescence Part II
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen0/101957HDUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
![Kiriko no unmei]()
Kiriko no unmei
![Girls in the Orchard]()
Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard0/101953HDGirls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 10/101957HDAn Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
