Natsuko Kahara Movies

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

1962 Japanese movie

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

1962 Japanese movie

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.