Natto Wada Movies

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

Romantic melodrama

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

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

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

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

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...

Melodrama 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...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.