Nobuko Otowa Movies

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...

After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drowned in Lake Izu. A mysterious empty boat, a forged...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

1962 Japanese movie

Kawasaki, a high school student from Ichiko, walks along a mountain path toward Amagi and encounters a troupe of traveling performers. He becomes...

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...

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

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

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

A sequel to Happiness of Us Alone. This story focuses on the troubled life of the couple's adult's son, Ichiro, especially his relationship with a...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

1954 Japanese movie

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.