Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.

Impossible to Imagine

2019

Japanese

6.7

♡ 3

Felicity Tillack Director

William Yagi as Business Consultant

Yukiko Ito as Yuki

Kazuya Moriyama as Yuki's Father

The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the entrepreneurial, biracial, business consultant who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love, but his need for change clashes with her desire for the world to stay the same. In the end, can they change enough for each other?

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

2017

Japanese

7.5

♡ 30

based on novel or book

Masaaki Yuasa Director

Kyle McCarley as Deputy Director

Hiroshi Kamiya as Gakuensai jimukyoku-chô

Kana Hanazawa as Kurokami no otome

Mugihito as Rihaku-san

As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.

A Geisha

1953

Japanese

7.6

♡ 6

100%

teacher student relationship

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Ayako Wakao as Eiko

Seizaburô Kawazu as Kusuda

Ichirô Sugai as Saeki

Eitarô Shindô as Sawamoto

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

The End of Summer

1961

Japanese

7.7

♡ 11

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Setsuko Hara as Akiko

Hisaya Morishige as Isomura Eiichirou

Akira Takarada as Teramoto Tadashi

Reiko Dan as Yuriko, her daughter

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946

Japanese

7.1

♡ 14

100%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Akitake Kôno as Itokawa

Eiko Miyoshi as Madame Yagihara, the prodessor's wife

Kokuten Kôdô as Mr. Noge, Ryukichi's father

Setsuko Hara as Yukie Yagihara

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.

Sisters of the Gion

1936

Japanese

7.4

♡ 11

89%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Taizô Fukami as Kimura

Eitarô Shindô as Kudo, the drygoods merchant

Isuzu Yamada as O-Mocha

Yôko Umemura as Umekichi

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

2014

Japanese

7.5

♡ 68

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura

Tao Tsuchiya as Makimachi Misao

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Makoto Shishio Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Megumi Takani

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.

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