Stars: Jun Tatara, Yûsaku Terashima, Taiji Tonoyama, Gorô Tarumi, Masao Shimizu
Postwar Hiroshima: It's been four years since he visited his hometown. When Takako travels around the city to visit an old friend, he encounters the effects of the big bomb and...
Stars: Betty White, Cate Blanchett, Lily Tomlin, Jess Harnell, Laraine Newman
An island in southern Japan. Sousuke is a five-year-old boy who lives with his mother in a small house on top of a cliff overlooking a small port town. He befriends a little goldfish girl named "Ponio" who wishes to become a human.
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Hiroyuki Nagato, Toshio Takahara, Tetsurô Tanba, Taiji Tonoyama
Having lived in poverty, Kinta decides to join the local yakuza. Greed drives him to smuggle drugs and people and fills his group's jeep. One day, he becomes responsible for taking care of the mafia boss's pigs, which is located near an American military base, and...
Stars: Mansaku Fuwa, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Saburô Date, Kaoru Kobayashi
A traveling blind musician is abused while touring the country, even as the modern world claims that people's behavior has changed...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Yoshio Inaba, Gô Katô, Daigo Kusano, Kazuo Kitamura
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko grows up as a prostitute dancer. One day, Tomoko meets her mother in a forbidden area in Tokyo, and that's enough for her life to get into trouble.
Stars: Kiyoshi Kamoda, Tanie Kitabayashi, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama
At the end of high school, a student meets an older man and he...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Atsushi Watanabe, Jerry Fujio, Kin Sugai, Yoshiko Maki
In the corners of the lives of people who live in a poor neighborhood on the edge of a river in the suburbs of modern Tokyo.
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Nobuo Kaneko, Taiji Tonoyama, Kikue Môri, Kichiemon Nakamura
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders sacrifice their lives. However, this woman's husband blames himself for misleading his wife and trying to thwart the demand law...
Stars: Yôji Tanaka, Renji Ishibashi, Ryôko Hirosue, Yoshiko Tanaka, Mitsuru Hirata
The lonely and elderly manager of a railway station remembers his past memories when he learns that the station is on the verge of closure due to lack of profit and...
Stars: Tomoko Naraoka, Sofu Teshigahara
It shows the old and traditional art of Japan and inside an art school in Japan...
Stars: Takanobu Hozumi, Shinsuke Ashida, Shirô Yanase, Kotoe Hatsui, Ayako Fukuda
A rebel named Jiro must deal with an environment full of various crimes such as prostitution and... Jiro's choices have a huge impact on his life and his relationships with his mother as well as the girl he falls in love with. That's why Jiro decides to...
Stars: Shôhei Hino, Takako Matsu, Toshinori Omi, Naomi Nishida, Tomoko Naraoka
Tsutomu lives alone in a mountain hut in Nagano. He collects fruits and mushrooms from the mountain. He also grows vegetables in the farm. He cooks his food every day with these natural ingredients. By doing this, he can feel that...
Stars: Yûki Kudô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Yumiko Fujita, Hisashi Igawa, Kirin Kiki
The daughter of a car mechanic asks her father questions about what happened to her aunt during the war. At first, the father is silent. But finally he decides to tell the story of his sister's life.
Stars: Takahiro Miura, Isao Hashizume, Tetsu Watanabe, Reiko Takashima, Yûko Genkaku
The film tells the story of a forty-nine-year-old office worker who leaves his job in Tokyo to become a train driver for Inchibata Electric Railway (Electric Railway Company) in Shimane Prefecture.
Stars: Tomoko Saitô, Hiroyuki Nagato, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Gô Katô, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of delinquent teenagers...
