Nobuko Otowa Movies

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

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...

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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.

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

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

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...

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

1962 Japanese movie

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...