Yo Shiomi

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Kiritachi

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisako Yamane

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Kiritachi

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

Genre: Music

Cast: Takako Irie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

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Cast: Haruo Okazaki

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Part one of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A 1942 film.

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

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Cast: Mie Kitahara

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichiro Fujiyama

A 1943 film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Japanese film.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...

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Cast: Kimiko Sakuramachi

Jidaigeki from 1940

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Part two of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ureo Egawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

Genre: History

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

Genre: History

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

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Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese...

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Cast: Osamu Takizawa

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Two brothers move to their grandfather's house after their father is drafted and play war games with their new classmates.

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Cast: Masaru Kodaka

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi