Fumiko Okamura Movies

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya." There is a system where customers from Izumo...

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952...

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

The story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.