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Yasuko Kawakami
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Akebono sō no satsujin
A body is found poisoned in a room of a luxury apartment late at night and a beautiful mother turns herself in to protect her rebellious daughter.
Street of Shame
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi
A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty conceals her true feelings… The stories of love and friendship that unfold in a poor town shrouded in fog.
Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: hachi-nin no hanayome
Studio wa ōsawagi
An entertainment film set in a movie studio, featuring songs and hidden talents performed by male and female stars.
Asakusa Lights
A passionate singer who’s rough around the edges but has a warm heart; a kind-hearted, impoverished painter who devotes himself wholeheartedly; and a beautiful opera singer loved by both of them—the joys and sorrows of Asakusa during the golden age of opera.
O Sorrowful White Snow of Mount Fuji
Tsuki no kōdōkan
Eki basha osowaru
A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official seeking to line his own pockets, alongside an ill-fated brother and sister harboring a desire for revenge.
Haha chigusa
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets.
Tainted Flowers
8:13 PM
Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.
Miss Teacher
As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age story of laughter and tears that unfolds at this all-girls’ school, revolving around a rookie teacher.