Nobuko Otowa Movies

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

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and...

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

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

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

A contemporary comedy.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

The 17th "Ekimae" feature.

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.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

1958 Japanese movie

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film...