Nobuko Otowa Movies

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

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...

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

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...

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

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.

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

Chizuru, the beautiful daughter of a Kyoto restaurant owner, feels trapped by the marriage plans her mother has arranged for her. When an older...

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

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.

Modern love story about three disparate sisters, one (Tsukasa) of whom who suspects her husband (Kobayashi) has been unfaithful.

1958 Japanese movie