Makoto Kobori

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Based on the story "Uwaki no tabi" ("Affair Journey") by Keita Genji.

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.

Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.

A handsome man and a beautiful woman who seek to restore the Toyotomi clan by taking in the orphaned Princess Tsuru.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Comedy about a dress designer at a big Tokyo department store, and his relationship with three female associates.

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Japanese noir.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

1954 Japanese movie

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

1950 Japanese movie

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city.