Ko Mihashi

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Genre: History

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

1949 drama film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takako Irie

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Suzuki

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

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Cast: Takako Irie

Japanese domestic drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

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 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

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heihachirō Ōkawa

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Tanima

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

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

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōtarō Katsumi

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

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

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Naoko Kubo

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

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Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

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: Nobuko Otowa

An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

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Cast: Shin Saburi

1955 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1955 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi