Nobuko Otowa Movies

The lives of a family of kelp (kombu) merchants in Osaka across three generations, spanning from the Meiji era through the aftermath of World War II.

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

A Japanese film from 1965, directed by Shirô Toyoda.

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught...

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

After years of living a comfortable existence as a housewife, Aki starts to suspect that her husband is hiding something.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

1962 Japanese movie

A woman looks after her father in law.

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...