Tsuruko Mano Movies

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

Salaryman comedy.

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

1962 Japanese movie

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...