Kumeko Otowa Movies

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

The fourth and final "Comic Storyteller" feature.

1962 Japanese movie

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreaks. After an unexpected pregnancy, she has an...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

1950s Japanese comedy.

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

1940 Japanese movie

Japanese horror thriller from 1969.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Part two of two.

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...