Fumiko Okamura Movies

The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron who owns the forests where he works convinces him...

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

1962 Japanese movie

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates...

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....