Nobuko Otowa Movies

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

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...

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

Modern love story about three disparate sisters, one (Tsukasa) of whom who suspects her husband (Kobayashi) has been unfaithful.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

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.

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

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

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

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

A Japanese film from 1963, Directed by Shirô Toyoda.

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