Tanie Kitabayashi

だれの椅子？

Kenjiro Morinaga

Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

慾望

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito

Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress for this movie among others.

母なき子

Kiyoshi Horiike

Yôko Minamida, Kō Mishima

Japanese drama film.

Onna hitori daichi wo yuku

Fumio Kamei

Isuzu Yamada, Jūkichi Uno

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed his “Haha Nareba Onna Nareba(Become a Mother, Become a Woman)” (1952).

みだれ髪

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Michiko Ai, Noriko Hodaka

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

月山

Tetsutaro Murano

Jiro Kawarazaki, Chikako Yuri

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.

となりのトトロ

Hayao Miyazaki

Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

女中ッ子

Tomotaka Tasaka

Sachiko Hidari, Teruo Iba

ビルマの竪琴

Kon Ichikawa

Rentaro Mikuni, Shōji Yasui

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Nippon no obaachan

Tadashi Imai

Chôchô Miyako, Tanie Kitabayashi

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

みんなわが子

Miyoji Ieki

Hitomi Nakahara, Ranko Akagi

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Satsuo Yamamoto

Rentaro Mikuni, Yūnosuke Itō

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

美女と盗賊

Keigo Kimura

Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.

Intentions of Murder

Shōhei Imamura

Masumi Harukawa, Kō Nishimura

Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening.

キクとイサム

Tadashi Imai

Emiko Takahashi, George Okunoyama

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

原爆の子

Kaneto Shindō

Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.