Nobuko Otowa Movies

A Japanese film from 1965, directed by Shirô Toyoda.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

After years of living a comfortable existence as a housewife, Aki starts to suspect that her husband is hiding something.

The 21st film in the Ekimae series, commemorating the 35th anniversary of Toho. The film is a loose remake of the first film in the series, Ekimae...

1962 Japanese movie

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...