Shochiku Movies

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walke...

Sato Aiko, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She spent a gloomy time, but then a middle-aged edit...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years be...

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

The third movie of a four-part finale of Tamayura.

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy in...

On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, incl...

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of nov...

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.

Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima),the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),an...

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell t...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.