Shin'yō Nara Movies

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.

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

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.