Movies: Natsuko Kahara

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang...

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

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

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence a...

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress....

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughte...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke....

Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....

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

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In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a w...

1962 Japanese movie...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie...

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend....

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

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large tracts of land. The bride is a former teacher and was rumoured to have had an affair, which explains why...

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1974 Japanese movie...