Natto Wada Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Romantic melodrama

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