Natto Wada Movies

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

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

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

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

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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...

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 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...

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

Romantic melodrama

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