Movies

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...

1961 Japanese movie

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

1958 Japanese movie

A young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is...

Japanese comedy film.

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

1959 youth comedy.

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have...

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...