Keiju Kobayashi

A love story between a girl who loves reading books and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

The Japanese government suppresses news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the US and USSR, both of whom willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

The shorted re-edited American version of Submersion of Japan, in which Japan slowly sinks into the sea as the US and Japan work together to stop it.

Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.

This wry chamber piece from director Mikio Naruse focuses on a couple whose pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment. And just as its people are recovering, there is a threat during these Cold War years of renewed militarism and rear...

A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the murdered woman and a suspect whom the new Assistant Inspector, Iwaki, has been pursuing for one year will soon become clear...