Nobuko Otowa Movies

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

​A powerful priest uses his magical abilities to imprison the rain gods within a waterfall, causing a devastating drought. The imperial court...

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

1958 Japanese movie

Kawasaki, a high school student from Ichiko, walks along a mountain path toward Amagi and encounters a troupe of traveling performers. He becomes...

A romantic triangle comprised of two brothers in love with the same woman.

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

1954 Japanese movie

Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka. ...

Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn...

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

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.

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Japanese drama film.