6.9
The Lovelorn Geisha
IMDb: 6.9 1960 111 min 28 views
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 ...
7.5
The Wiser Age
IMDb: 7.5 1962 111 min 29 views
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
8.1
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
IMDb: 8.1 1960 111 min 35 views
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she’s a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life’s vicious cycle: ...
7.4
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
IMDb: 7.4 1960 123 min 34 views
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former ...
7.4
Untamed Woman
IMDb: 7.4 1957 121 min 31 views
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his ...
7.3
Sudden Rain
IMDb: 7.3 1956 91 min 34 views
A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
7.6
Flowing
IMDb: 7.6 1956 117 min 29 views
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her ...
7.6
Floating Clouds
IMDb: 7.6 1955 123 min 34 views
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. ...
7.7
Sound of the Mountain
IMDb: 7.7 1954 96 min 45 views
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
7.4
Late Chrysanthemums
IMDb: 7.4 1954 101 min 44 views
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, ...
7.1
Wife
IMDb: 7.1 1953 96 min 39 views
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband’s lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can’t ...
7.3
Brother and Sister
IMDb: 7.3 1953 86 min 33 views
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal ...
7.6
Mother
IMDb: 7.6 1952 98 min 34 views
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.
7.5
Lightning
IMDb: 7.5 1952 87 min 35 views
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a ...
7.6
Repast
IMDb: 7.6 1951 97 min 40 views
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
7
Ginza Cosmetics
IMDb: 7 1951 87 min 31 views
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
7.5
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
IMDb: 7.5 1935 74 min 44 views
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but ...