So Yamamura Movies

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become...

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun...

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking...

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode...

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Based on the Nobu Koito story

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the...