Nobuko Otowa Movies

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love....

aka Libido.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

A woman looks after her father in law.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...