Tomoko Naraoka Movies

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the...

A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment…for their bodies and their souls....

A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a...

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Murder case and trial.

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

1962 Japanese movie

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

1962 Japanese movie

A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911....