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Yearning

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

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8.3

1964 Drama 98 min Play

7

A Wanderer’s Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the ...

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7

1962 Drama 124 min Play

6

The Other Woman

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

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6

1961 Drama 106 min Play

7.6

Immortal Love

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.

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7.6

1961 Drama 103 min Play

6.5

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

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6.5

1960 Drama 117 min Play

8.1

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older. She's of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has ...

NR

8.1

1960 Drama 111 min Play

6.9

The Rickshaw Man

The story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

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6.9

1958 Drama 103 min Play

7.1

Flowing

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

NR

7.1

1956 Drama 117 min Play

6.2

The Tattered Wings

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.

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6.2

1955 Drama 99 min Play

7.8

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

NR

7.8

1955 Drama 123 min Play

6.1

The Garden of Women

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

NR

6.1

1954 Drama 141 min Play

7.9

Twenty-Four Eyes

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.

NR

7.9

1954 Drama 156 min Play

5.8

Wild Geese

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

NR

5.8

1953 Drama 104 min Play

6.4

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and insights into, the everyday lives of lower-middle-class people. Based on Rinzo Shiina’s novel of the absurd, the film depicts the lives of two couples against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s.

NR

6.4

1953 Drama 108 min Play

6.7

Carmen’s Innocent Love

Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.

NR

6.7

1952 Comedy 103 min Play

6.9

Lightning

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

NR

6.9

1952 Drama 87 min Play

6.7

Carmen Comes Home

A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.

NR

6.7

1951 Comedy 86 min Play

7.2

The Munekata Sisters

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

NR

7.2

1950 Drama 112 min Play