Natsuko Kahara Movies

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Teacher Yuki (Natsuki) is appointed to a high school where he stages a big soccer match.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.While the men are angry she is pregnant with no...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.