Hisako Yamane

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

1951 Japanese movie

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ihara Siro

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ihara Siro

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Hajime Izu

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

1944 war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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Cast: Fusako Fujima

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gantama Ashinoya

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

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Cast: Ureo Egawa

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisako Yamane

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mie Kitahara

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

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Cast: Ushio Akashi

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

1952 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Tōjūrō Sakata IV

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

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Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese mystery thriller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisako Yamane

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Genre: War

Cast: Setsuko Hara

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A 1942 film.

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Entatsu Yokoyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

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Cast: Ureo Egawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

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Cast: Ichirō Sugai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Japanese war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Minamida