Akitsu onsen (AKA: Akitsu Springs)

IMDB: 7.2/10

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Kaseki no mori (AKA: The Petrified Forest)

IMDB: 7.0/10

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend's abusive employer.

Jôen (AKA: The Affair)

IMDB: 7.3/10

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother's lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.

Gohatto

IMDB: 6.8/10

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.

Rokudenashi

IMDB: 6.8/10

A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.

Ongaku (1972)

IMDB: 6.3/10

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

Irezumi (1966)

IMDB: 7.1/10

A seductive woman gets kidnapped into prostitution. After getting a spider tattoo made on her back, she grows vengeful, leaving several men in her path.

Namida o shishi no tategami ni

IMDB: 6.8/10

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim to a manipulative cycle of ...