Movies

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

A pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

1956 Daiei movie

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Romantic thriller film.

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.