Name: Lullaby of the Earth
Director: Yasuzō Masumura
Released: 1976
Cast: Eiji Okada, Mieko Harada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Natsuko Kahara, Meiko Kaji

Eiji Okada

Mieko Harada

Kinuyo Tanaka

Natsuko Kahara

Meiko Kaji

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.

Lullaby of the Earth

Daichi no komoriuta

Emmanuelle Riva

Bernard Fresson

Stella Dassas

Pierre Barbaud

An involving meditation on the potentials and limits of passion and pacifism featuring two &quot;impossible&quot; love affairs; one overshadowed by the bomb, one undercut by World War II exigencies.

Nouvelle Vague

Hiroshima, My Love

Français

VF - HD

VF - SD

Kyōko Kishida

Kôji Mitsui

Hiroko Ito

Sen Yano

Ginzo Sekiguchi

Kiyohiko Ichihara	

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

L’âge d’or des studios japonais

Nouveaux cinémas

Woman in the Dunes

Suna no onna

Ryō Tamura

Michiko Tsukasa

Kotobuki Hananomoto

Haruhiko Okamura

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

This Transient Life

無常

Tatsuya Nakadai

Takeshi Katô

Akira Terao

Jinpachi Nezu

Daisuke Ryu

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Takeshi Nomura

Hisashi Igawa

Kenji Kodama

Toshiya Ito

Kazuo Kato

Norio Matsui

Masayuki Yui

Jun Tazaki

Hitoshi Ueki

Heihachiro Suzuki

Reiko Nanjo

Sawako Kochi

Tokie Kanda

Kumeko Otowa

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other... and him.

french

Japanese

VOST - SD

Masayuki Mori

Ichisaburo Sawamura

Sakae Ozawa

Kikue Mori

Mitsuko Mito

Machiko Kyō

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain

雨月物語

VOST - HD

Kyōko Kagawa

Chieko Naniwa

Ichirō Sugai

Eitarô Shindô

Kimiko Tachibana

Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Akitake Kôno

Masao Shimizu

Ken Mitsuda

Kazukimi Okuni

Yôko Kosono

Teruko Ômi

Masahiko Kato

Keiko Enami

Bontarô Akemi

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Sansho the Bailiff

山椒大夫

Shuji Sano

Chieko Murata

Eiko Takamatsu

Chyoko Fumitani

Toshinosuke Nagao	

Fumiko Okamura

Takeshi Sakamoto

Chishū Ryū

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son&#x27;s hospital bills.

A Hen in the Wind

Kaze no naka no mendori

Daisuke Katō

Keiju Kobayashi

Hideko Takamine

Noboru Nakaya

Mitsuko Kusabue

Akira Takarada

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

A Wanderer's Notebook

Hôrô-ki

Toshiro Mifune

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Yûzô Kayama

Yôko Naitô

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Red Beard

赤ひげ

Sadako Sawamura

Tsukie Matsuura

Follows a woman&#x27;s fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.

The Life of Oharu

Saikaku ichidai onna

Sanae Takasugi

Mitsuo Nagata

Tomie Tsunoda

A mistress of a drug dealer in post-war Japan is shocked when she discovers that he is having an affair with her sister.

Women of the Night

Yoru no onna tachi

Seiji Miyaguchi

Danko Ichikawa

Teiji Takahashi

Yûko Mochizuki

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

The Ballad of Narayama

楢山節考, Narayama bushikō

Eitaro Ozawa

Komaki Kurihara

Yôko Takahashi

Takiko Mizunoe

Eiko Mizuhara

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

Brothel No. 8

Sandakan hachibanshōkan bōkyō

Kuniko Miyake

A woman&#x27;s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko&#x27;s home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women&#x27;s rights.

Flame of My Love

わが恋は燃えぬ

Mariko Okada

Haruko Sugimura

Isuzu Yamada

Sumiko Kurishima

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn&#x27;t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Flowing

流れる

Nobuko Otowa

Kiyoko Hirai

Yūji Hori

Reiko Kongō

Eijirō Yanagi

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective wife, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband&#x27;s family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Miss Oyu

お遊さま

Chieko Nakakita

Masao Mishima

Akihiko Katayama

After the loss of a beloved family member, a daughter returns from far away to her mother&#x27;s home in Japan; mother and daughter attempt to work past the guilt and distance in order to reconnect, each in their own ways.

Mother

おかあさん

Yûsuke Kawazu

Ayako Wakao

Ranko Akagi

Shinsuke Ashida

Ayako Ikegami

Jotaro Senba

Daihachi Kita

Kei'ichi Noda

During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who&#39;s addicted to morphine.

Red Angel

赤い天使

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Seisaku's Wife

清作の妻

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Haruko Mabuchi

Jun Negami

Hideo Takamatsu

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Ayako was having an affair, apparently with her husband&#x27;s approval, and this complicates the trial.

A Wife Confesses

Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

Ken Ogata

Mayumi Ogawa

Michiyo Yasuda

Yusuke Takita

Yuzo Hayakawa

Hiroko is a talented athlete who, trained by Shirou, hopes to run during the Olympic games of Mexico. Hiroko has many enemies, who are jealous of her talent, and who doubt that she is a woman.

Sex Check: The Second Sex

セックス・チェック 第二の性

Hitomi Nozoe

Sachiko Hidari

Eiji Funakoshi

A young doctor running a small hospital has to choose between two women: a dedicated nurse or a wealthy girl who has been spoiled.

Warm Current

暖流

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