Nobuko Otowa Movies

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...

This rare silent black & white and color Super-8 footage was shot with the camera of actor Kei Sato (Hachi in the film) during the production of...

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

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

A Japanese film from 1965, directed by Shirô Toyoda.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

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.

1962 Japanese movie

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.