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...

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

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

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi