Movies: Fumiko Okamura

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

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro m...

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess....

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an elegance to it, which is the charm of the 30 year old Kinuyo Tanaka. There was a time when Tanaka w...

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship....

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1945 Japanese movie...

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there....

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1962 Japanese movie...

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister....

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A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A master...

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film....

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant......

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Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo....

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Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War....