Kumeko Otowa

The 8-Tomb Village (1996)

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. ...

Rhapsody in August (1991)

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possib ...

Luxury Yacht: First Love Tour Murder Case (1990)

Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project to reunite with her first love. She was nominated by Yamano, a classmate from elementary school. Kanako meets Yamano for the first time in 15 yea ...

Dreams (1990)

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa's own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier's ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh's canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity's ...

Ran (1985)

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons. ...

Kagemusha (1980)

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over ...

Village of Eight Tombs (1969)

Japanese horror thriller from 1969. ...

Two in the Shadow (1967)

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown. ...

Chûshingura (1962)

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor. ...

Whirlpool of Love (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Wiser Age (1962)

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner. ...

The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'. ...

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2) (1957)

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin ...

Sazae-san (1956)

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series. ...

Flowing (1956)

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 mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha w ...

Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu (1956)

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight K ...

Floating Clouds (1955)

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. ...

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete (1952)

Third Class Executives (1952)

1950s Japanese comedy. ...

Okuni and Gohei (1952)

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni's husband and Gohei's master, and they cannot return to their lord's home ...

A Girl at Eighteen: Surprised Heaven (1952)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Repast (1951)

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage. ...

Sky of Hope (1942)

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942. ...

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph (1941)

The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes ...

Yukiko and Natsuyo (1941)

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940. ...

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2) (1941)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ...

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1) (1941)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ...

Hideko the Cheerleader (1940)

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them. ...

Hikari to kage (Zenpen) (1940)

Part one of two. ...

Hikari to kage (Kōhen) (1940)

Part two of two. ...

Rivals (1939)

Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford. ...

Ichiyo Higuchi (1939)

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896). ...

Shanghai Landing Party (1939)

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-wome ...

Composition Class (1938)

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's fur ...

Subterranean Heat (1938)

Ushidure Express (1937)