Hajime Izu Movies

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

1950 Japanese film

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.