Kumeko Otowa Movies

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Murase

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ihara Siro

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ihara Siro

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Part one of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Genre: History

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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 mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1940 Japanese movie

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Cast: Entatsu Yokoyama

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project to reunite with her first love. She...

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Cast: Wakiko Kano

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

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Cast: Shinji Yamada

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Den Obinata

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Akira Terao

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Part two of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious...

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Cast: Kenichi Enomoto