Tsuruko Mano Movies

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

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Men are being murdered by a killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

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

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

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

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

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

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...

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

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

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

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