Onna bakari no yoru (1961)
A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti prostitution law
Shuu (1956)
This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity
Lightning (1952)
Poor, pathetic mother Ose Kumeko Urabe has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men
Neko to Shôzô to futari no onna (1956)
A timid man who has spent much of his life attempting without success to get out from under the domination of his mother, finds that marriage is no answer His first wife is boring and traditional, and his second wife is trampish and
Daredevil in the Castle (1961)
Mohei is a wandering swordsman He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills Those skills are sorely tested when Osaka Castle is besieged by the
Mother (1952)
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mothers attempt to sustain her family
Mothra (1961)
An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the islands mythical deity Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression
Omotenashi (2018)
Jacky is the young heir to a construction company in Taiwan His father sends him to Kyoto to oversee the renovation of a hotel they bought Jacky is going in hopes to get back his ex girlfriend Naoko and to sell the hotel There,
Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)
A feature length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese Narrated by Keanu Ree