Mutsuko Sakura

Swing Girls (2004)

A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them. ...

Walking With The Dog (2004)

Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who's distracted by her mother's d ...

The Village Album (2004)

Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations, the villagers decide to take photographs of all the families in the village. Ken ...

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen (2000)

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mys ...

Give It All (1998)

Etsuko – a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her sc ...

Maborosi (1995)

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world. ...

Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)

A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club. ...

The Demon Comes in Spring (1989)

Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl's enforced marriage to another man, in order that they may marry themselves. The ancient custom of the vil ...

I Lived, But... (1983)

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to wor ...

Oiran (1983)

Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him to America. Unfortunately, a crazed tattoo artist is obsessed with Ayame's perfect skin as a potential canvas, so he kills Kisuke to keep Ayame in Japan. La ...

Cape Erimo (1975)

Harajuku, the fashion capital of Tokyo. Yasuko works at a boutique as a beginner seamstress. As snow covers the streets, the boutique's interior decorates itself with colorful clothing. An exhibition of the shop's spring line up is right around the corner. ...

Dangerous Games (1970)

Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as ...

Charming Men (1970)

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Baisho) also returns from the juvenile classification center on the same day. However, at a welcome party he ...

One Two Punch (1969)

Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles. ...

Sex and Life (1969)

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a m ...

My Destiny (1968)

Snow Country (1965)

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls. ...

River Washes Away the Moon (1963)

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hadashi no hanayome (1962)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Get Married, Mother (1962)

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Haruko no ōen danchō (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Ai to kanashimi to (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kyū-chan ondo (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring. ...

Kono ni uruwashi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kawa wa nagareru (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Haru no sanmyaku (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Drunkard's Paradise (1962)

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol. ...

Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

A Roaring Trade (1962)

Hikkoshi yatsure (1961)

Manao Horiuchi movie ...

Zero Focus (1961)

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pa ...

The Shrikes (1961)

Women of Tokyo (1961)

The Harbor Lights (1961)

The Tragedy of Bushido (1960)

A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single n ...

Late Autumn (1960)

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband. ...

Irohanihoheto (1960)

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand ...

The Izu Dancer (1960)

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's. ...

Floating Weeds (1959)

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. ...

Thus Another Day (1959)

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man... ...

Koko ni otoko ari (1959)

High Teen (1959)

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in ...

Good Morning (1959)

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weave ...

Farewell to Spring (1959)

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were. ...

Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki (1959)

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Maria of the Ant Village (1958)

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vag ...

One Step to Happiness (1958)

I Want to Be a Shellfish (1958)

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the ...

Farewell to Summer (1958)

Equinox Flower (1958)

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refu ...

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki (1958)

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957)

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife. ...

Tokyo Twilight (1957)

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child. ...

The Rose on His Arm (1956)

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza. ...

Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita (1956)

A Samurai's Honor at Pawn (1956)

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves. ...

The Dawn of Judo (1955)

Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi (1955)

A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise of a good-natured fruit vendor and his wife. ...

Beautiful Tengu (1954)

During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita Koshiro, each walked different paths. Koshiro, who upheld the philosophy of "Revere the Emperor, Expel the ...

Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story. ...

Sunny house (1954)

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who ...

Kyūkon sannin musume (1954)

1954 Japanese movie ...

Young Miss Executive (1953)

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But Madoka wants to be a stage dancer, so she won't concentrate her office job. Madoka meets Akiyama, a stage di ...

Tokyo Story (1953)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their ag ...

Dreaming People (1953)

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encourage ...

Kare o korosu na (1952)

Beauty of Life (1951)

Inochi uruwashi ...

Ah, Youth (1951)

Aa seishun 1951 ...

Boyhood (1951)

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community. ...

Home Sweet Home (1951)

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony... ...

I Yearn for Father (1951)

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daisek ...

Omoide no borero (1950)

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki. ...