Natsuko Kahara Movies

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

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

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

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

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...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.While the men are angry she is pregnant with no...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...