Shizue Natsukawa

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Shizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal, the other refuses to marry out of love for her....

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

Story of young love in the hills.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yū Fujiki

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshie Fujiwara

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Cast: Tokihiko Okada

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kaoru Sugita

In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku...

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Cast: Ichikawa Danjūrō XI

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata...

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Cast: 花柳寿美

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid...

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Cast: Minoru Ōki

1949 drama film

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tsunemi Hirose

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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Cast: Tōjūrō Sakata IV

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

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Cast: Isamu Nagato

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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Cast: Izumi Yukimura

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

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Cast: Yōko Umemura

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Chorus of a Million People

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Cast: Nobuko Fushimi

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle. Starting...

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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Cast: Kakuko Chino

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Genre: History

Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuriko Hanabusa

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Hanabu

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

A country girl Teruko falls in love with the aristocrat Yanagisawa. When she once asks him what the meaning of life is, he responds that it is to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harumi Hanayagi