Movies: Hideaki Nagai

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts...

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....

1962 Japanese movie...

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll start falling for each other against their odds....

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair....

1961 Japanese movie...

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures....

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza....

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who c...

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) ...

1955 Japanese movie...

1962 Japanese movie...

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Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women....

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects....

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....

1962 Japanese movie...

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan....

Japanese comedy film....

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer....