Eiko Takamatsu

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōko Iida

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōko Iida

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Hideo Takeda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denmei Suzuki

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yaeko Izumo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Atsushi Watanabe

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Eiichi Sugasawara

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Hiroo Ikeda movie

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Cast: Ichirō Izawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Takao

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Kimura

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Cast: Mariko Aoyama

A Japanese film

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Japanese silent film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinji Tanaka

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Tamura

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Lost silent film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

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Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige