Misako Watanabe Movies

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past.

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to...

1961 Japanese movie

Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel.

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

Japanese drama film.

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and...

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

1962 Japanese movie

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Yoshii and his wife Yoko are elementary school teachers in a mountainous village. One day, an elderly writer arrives with his granddaughter, Rika....

1962 Japanese movie

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has...

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was...