Nobuko Otowa Movies

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy'...

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji monogatar...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th...

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 name...

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel that could change the destiny of Japan.

Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...