Natsuko Kahara Filmes

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

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

1959 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Keiichi, a man on the run after being implicated in a detective’s death, struggles to evade the police. As the investigation intensifies,...

1974 Japanese movie

1964 Japanese movie

A 1948 Japanese film.

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

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

1961 Japanese movie