Nobuko Otowa Movies

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

1980 Japanese film.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Japanese drama film.

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...

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

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

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 beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).