Nobuko Otowa Movies

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

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

A contemporary comedy.

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

The 17th "Ekimae" feature.

A 1963 Japanese musical drama directed by Kôzô Saeki

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

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

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

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

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

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

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

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 story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...