Sachiko Soma Movies

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

A 1961 crime film.

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

A series of murders surrounds the 70,000 ryō in buried treasure hidden by the Kanayama Magistrate.

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

A girl from a tenement house was abducted in broad daylight, right in the heart of Edo.

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.