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Young Girls in Love / Koisuru onnatachi (1986) Kazuki Ômori, Yuki Saitô, Haruko Sagara, Mamiko Takai

The story of a young girl’s first love is told from the heroine’s point of view. Read More »
Tora-san 37 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Shiawase no aoi tori (1986) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Etsuko Shihomi

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit Read More »
Tora-san 36 / Otoko wa tsurai yo: Shibamata yori ai wo komete (1985) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Masami Shimojô

Tora-san’s family’s neighbor, Akemi, who had been married Read More »
Snow Trail / Ginrei no hate (1947) Senkichi Taniguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Kosugi

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. Read More »
Love Letter / Koibumi (1953) Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno

This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka Read More »
Cannonball Wedlock / Konzen tokkyû (2011) Kôji Maeda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ryô Kase, Kenta Hamano

A slapstick comedy about a woman who has led a life of noncommittal romance Read More »
Cats on Park Avenue / Kôendôri no nekotachi (1989) Shin’ichi Nakada, Nekohachi Edoya, Ayumu Hasegawa, Izumi Igarashi

A group of young dancers prepare for a stage musical based on the street cats of their neighborhood. Read More »
Bullet Wound (1969) Dankon – Shirô Moritani

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller Read More »
Tora-San 1: Our Lovable Tramp / Otoko wa tsurai yo (1969) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Sachiko Mitsumoto

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years Read More »