Ranko Hanai

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Japanese film.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese noir.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Takada

Genre: War

Cast: Joji Oka

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw.

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sō Yamamura

1930s Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese historical film.

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios

Genre: Action

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Joji Oka

The story of five sisters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

1948 Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

Genre: History

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ureo Egawa

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that depicts the murderous world. The turmoil of the end...

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Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Japanese war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

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

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

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Cast: Shirô Izome

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

1944 war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoko Date

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shojiro Ogasawara

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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

1950 Japanese movie

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Cast: Onoe Baiko VII

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa