Released Date:
1950-08-25
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (462 Reviews)
Director:
Yasujirè OzuGenres:
DramaKègo Noda (screenplay)
Yasujirè Ozu (screenplay)
Jiro Osaragi (serial story)
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
Released Date:
1959-12-22
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
86 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (295 Reviews)
Director:
Keisuke KinoshitaGenres:
ComedyA girl who had left her small Japanese village for the excitement and adventure of the big city--in this case, Tokyo--returns home years later for a visit. However, scandal erupts when the villagers find out what she has been doing in Tokyo all these years--she's a stripper.
Released Date:
1954-03-16
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
141 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (58 Reviews)
Director:
Keisuke KinoshitaGenres:
DramaTomoji Abe (story)
Keisuke Kinoshita
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines
Released Date:
1980-06-06
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1312 Reviews)
Director:
Mikio NaruseFumiko Hayashi (novel)
Yèko Mizuki (adaptation)
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely women trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.
Released Date:
1985-11-29
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (546 Reviews)
Director:
Mikio NaruseGenres:
DramaToshirè Ide
Aya Kèda (novel)
Sumie Tanaka
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Released Date:
1957-10-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
162 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (62 Reviews)
Director:
Keisuke KinoshitaGenres:
DramaReleased Date:
1960-05-03
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (473 Reviews)
Director:
Hiroshi InagakiHiroshi Inagaki
Mansaku Itami
Shunsaku Iwashita (story)
In the turn of the Twentieth Century, the rickshaw driver Matsugoro "Matsu" is a happy man and a troublemaker well-known by everyone in his village. One day, Matsu sees an injured boy, Toshio, and brings him home. His mother Yoshiko Yoshioka asks Matsuo to take the boy to the doctor and then her husband Capt. Kotaro Yoshioka asks her to reward Matsu. However the rickshaw man refuses the money and becomes a friend of the family. When Kotaro unexpectedly dies, Matsuo helps Yoshiko to raise her son. Soon he falls in love with her, but he does not dare to open his heart to Yoshiko since they belong to different social classes.
Released Date:
1960-10-19
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
117 min
IMDB Ratings:
(132 Reviews)
Director:
Keisuke KinoshitaShichirè Fukazawa (based upon the novel by)
Keisuke Kinoshita
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (187 Reviews)
Director:
Keisuke KinoshitaGenres:
DramaReleased Date:
1964-10-23
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (456 Reviews)
Director:
Mikio NaruseGenres:
DramaZenzè Matsuyama (screenplay)
Mikio Naruse (story)
Released Date:
1954-11-23
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (53 Reviews)
Director:
Masaki KobayashiGenres:
DramaA family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
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