
7.4
A Japanese Tragedy
IMDb: 7.4 1953 116 min
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed ...

8.3
Ikiru
IMDb: 8.3 1952 143 min
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...

7.2
Scandal
IMDb: 7.2 1950 104 min
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

7.5
There Was a Father
IMDb: 7.5 1942 93 min
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

7.7
The Only Son
IMDb: 7.7 1936 87 min
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son’s education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she ...