Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, at 88, was the world's second-oldest working director when he made this biopic...
|
Okaji
|
2000
|
Veteran Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo was 82 when he directed this meditation on life, death, and loss. Following the...
|
|
1998
|
In an emotional and dramatic -- if not melodramatic accounting of a former Japanese gang member, some of the traits of the...
|
Ume
|
1985
|
|
|
|
1979
|
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s the rough-hewn blind shamisien player and folk-song...
|
|
1977
|
In this samurai tale, a brave warrior is told by the newly restored emperor that he must return to his home village and...
|
|
1969
|
In this Japanese love story, a young man, the son of deaf-mute parents, is given a job by a factory owner who thinks he...
|
|
1969
|
Set in feudal Japan, this atmospheric and violent ghost story (whose title literally translates as The Black Cat in the Bush)...
|
Mother
|
1968
|
In this Japanese drama, two childhood friends meet and reminisce about their youth. The man and woman had been great friends...
|
|
1968
|
This Japanese drama, the first to deal with some of the after-effects of the Hiroshima bomb, chronicles the quest of a...
|
Housemaid
|
1968
|
A mother leaves her husband and small village and travels to Kyoto with her teenage daughter. Their quaint country ways are...
|
|
1968
|
During his final hospital stay before the end of his life, an older man is extremely infatuated by the girl in the bed next...
|
|
1967
|
In this Japanese epic, set in the Muromachi era, the leader of a group of Kaga, refuses to help their master, a samurai,...
|
|
1966
|
In this interesting Japanese drama, a journalist travels to a tiny fishing village outside Tokyo to learn more about...
|
|
1964
|
A landmark in fantasy cinema, this lyrical ghost story is set in medieval Japan amid a bloody conflict between rival...
|
Woman
|
1964
|
|
|
|
1964
|
In this Japanese drama, an attorney is having an affair with his law partner's wife. Things go terribly wrong when during an...
|
|
1964
|
|
|
|
1963
|
In this Japanese melodrama set in 1941, a baby girl is born blind just as her father is sent off to fight for his country....
|
|
1962
|
The titular island in this Japanese domestic drama is an agrarian flyspeck, almost completely cut off from contact with the...
|
Toyo, the mother
|
1961
|
Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama...
|
|
1961
|
Diplomat's Mansion was originally released in Japan as Tokyo Yawa. The protagonist, played by Hiroshi Akutagawa, is an...
|
|
1961
|
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon. ~ Jason...
|
|
1961
|
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets...
|
|
1961
|
In this Japanese drama, a ten-year-old boy lives in the country with his sister and his widowed father, a Buddhist priest....
|
|
1961
|
|
|
Hideya (a geisha)
|
1959
|
In this Japanese semi-documentary, a teacher and her ex-students offer their view of the horrible aftermath of the A-bomb in...
|
|
1952
|
Genji Monogatori (A Tale of Genji) was another copacetic collaboration between Japanese director Kosaburo Yoshimura and...
|
Murasaki
|
1952
|
|
|
|
1951
|
|
|
|
1950
|