Kumeko Otowa Movies

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

1962 Japanese movie

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreaks. After an unexpected pregnancy, she has an...

Japanese comedy film.

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project to reunite with her first love. She...

1950s Japanese comedy.

Part one of two.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.