Nobuko Otowa Movies

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

A contemporary comedy.

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

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.

A woman looks after her father in law.

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

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...

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

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.

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A 1963 Japanese musical drama directed by Kôzô Saeki

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...