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Waga Machi wa Midorinari

Uta Matsuri Hyakuman Ryo

The Portrait

7.4

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Gonin Me no Mokugekisha

Ten no Yugao

Gate of Flesh

5.0

A pickpocketr falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden. (Source: TMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel…

A Flower Blooms

Children of the Beehive

7.3

The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black market work for a…

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

6.0

Four smugglers, a woman and 3 men, land on an island whose only inhabitants are the operators of a meteorological station. The criminals hold the men hostage as a typhoon approaches. (Source: MUBI)

Yakyukyo Jidai

Enoken no Home Run Oo

Mukau Sangen Ryodonari: Shirayuri no Maki

The Butterfly Lovers

A young woman dresses as a man to go to school, where she meets a poor but gifted student. They ultimately fall in love, which leads to tragic consequences. ~~ Adapted from the Chinese folk tale about ill-fated lovers.

A Hen in the Wind

7.3

The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo, prices are…

The Butterfly Lovers 2

A young woman dresses as a man to go to school, where she meets a poor but gifted student. They ultimately fall in love which leads to tragic consequences. ~~ Adapted from the folk tale about ill-fated lovers.

Sanbyakurokujugoya: Tokyo-hen

Koroku, who hates marriage of convenience, loves Teruko, and Ranko, an Osaka girl, relentlessly longs for Koroku. (Source: Nippon Eiga)

The Bright Day of My Life

6.0

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob. (Source: TMDB)

Sazae-san

~~ Adapted from the manga by Hasegawa Machiko.

Sanbyakurokujugoya: Osaka-hen

Madame Butterfly

This version of Puccini's tragic opera has Madame Butterfly set in Vietnam. She falls in love with a foreigner who abandons her and she bears his son. When he returns years later he has a new wife with him.