Nobuko Otowa Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

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

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

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

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...

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

aka Libido.

Japanese drama film.

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

1962 Japanese movie

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