1956

Early Spring

7.5/99

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

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Early Spring

1956

Girl's Reform School

0/0

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

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Girl's Reform School

1951

The Idiot

7/135

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgrac...

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The Idiot

1955

House of Bamboo

6.193/75

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen...

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House of Bamboo

2008

Kabei: Our Mother

7.4/41

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

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Kabei: Our Mother

1993

Madadayo

7.4/140

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who ho...

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Madadayo

1959

Good Morning

7.718/330

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exact...

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Good Morning

1957

Sayonara

6.683/150

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is...

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Sayonara

1949

Stray Dog

7.582/378

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

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Stray Dog

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

7.29/126

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1951

Repast

7.6/48

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for...

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Repast

2023

Shadow of Fire

7.5/36

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

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Shadow of Fire

2025

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

7.884/216

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops...

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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

1947

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

7.234/64

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a heartwarming bond between them.

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Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1961

The Last War

6.769/13

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

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The Last War

1963

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

6.214/14

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

1948

Women of the Night

7.141/32

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution,...

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Women of the Night

1960

Cruel Story of Youth

6.63/73

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

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Cruel Story of Youth

1961

Pigs and Battleships

7.149/67

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

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Pigs and Battleships

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

6.481/27

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

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Akitsu Hot Springs