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While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...
Onibaba
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...
Kuroneko
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
The Naked Island
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to...
Owl
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...
Children of Hiroshima
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...
A Last Note
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak...
River of First Love
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A...
Adrenaline Drive
Mother Teresa and Her World
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
Life of a Woman
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
Kanawa
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from...
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...
By Player
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
Teacher and Three Children
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...
Conquest
The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by...
A Fallen Woman
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...
Will to Live
Before the Dawn