Movies: Tokyo Hassei

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony....

A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another....

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan....

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves....

Venice Film Festival 1939...

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from the villagers but he knows full well that no one can afford to pay the village tax which has been unpaid...

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at the school, every time she causes problems because...

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by gargling and other methods, turns somber when the man loses his job after being fired. He attempts t...

Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story....