Setsuko Hara Movies

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...