Natto Wada Movies

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Romantic melodrama

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.