Nobuko Otowa Movies

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....

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...

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

1958 Japanese movie

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

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

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

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.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

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