Nobuko Otowa Movies

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

1962 Japanese movie

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

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

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

1958 Japanese movie

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

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

1954 Japanese movie

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