Natsuko Kahara Movies

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...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

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

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

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

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

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

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Sequel to "真実の愛情を求めて　何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama...

A 1948 Japanese film.