Sadao Maruyama

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

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Kiritachi

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Uruki

Japanese Warmovie

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Inoue

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

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

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Takehisa

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Den Obinata

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

Genre: War

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Part two of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

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

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Akitsu

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life...

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Cast: Bandō Mitsugorō VIII

Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts...

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Cast: Takako Irie

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Part one of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

Genre: History

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

"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