Natsuko Kahara Movies

A straight-laced police officer is reassigned to the vice squad tasked with cracking down on underground pornography rings. While investigating a...

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 mother's trade...

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

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the...

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

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

Salaryman comedy.

A romantic movie based on Chiyoko Shimakura’s hit song of the same name, in which Shimakura herself starred.

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

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...

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

1959 Japanese movie

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...