Nobuko Otowa Filmes

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

1962 Japanese movie

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

A woman looks after her father in law.

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.