Nobuko Otowa Movies

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with Shingo, a married novelist. Though they haven't...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

A sequel to Happiness of Us Alone. This story focuses on the troubled life of the couple's adult's son, Ichiro, especially his relationship with a...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

1962 Japanese movie

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

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 young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

1962 Japanese movie