Nobuko Otowa Movies

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

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...

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

A Japanese film from 1963, Directed by Shirô Toyoda.

Chizuru, the beautiful daughter of a Kyoto restaurant owner, feels trapped by the marriage plans her mother has arranged for her. When an older...

A tale of melancholy centered on a couple of engineers at a power plant in the north and a pure romance with a female engineer.

A Japanese film from 1965, directed by Shirô Toyoda.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.