Tag Archives: Nobuko Otowa

Tamiko is a divorced mother with a seriously ill son, struggling to save him and give both a sense of their existence. Read More »

Based on a true story, an elderly women resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband’s dead body Read More »

Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. Read More »

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru (“Lucky Dragon No. 5”) sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Read More »

After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku Read More »

Chikuzan Takahashi, in his late sixties at the time of filming, is a blind musician who has spent most of his life on the roads of Northern Japan Read More »

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Read More »

A few years after the surrender of Japan in the Second World War. Read More »

Dependent on the Noh play with the identical title, The Iron Crown is about a girl plotting revenge against her husband that leaves her for a younger girl. Read More »

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Read More »