Tsuruko Mano Movies

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Salaryman comedy.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

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

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa