Movies

A traveling yakuza is sent to collect a debt owed by a man who was killed in the parlor where she dealt a game, setting in motion a chain of...

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and...

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...

Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of...

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

1956 Daiei movie

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints...

Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

A story about being scared of getting old.

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.