Shinichi Himori

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichiro Yuki

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Uehara

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

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

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

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Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsushi Watanabe

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Shinobu

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minoru Takada

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

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

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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Cast: Emiko Yagumo

A 1937 Japanese film.

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Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

Genre: Music

Cast: Michiko Namiki

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Shinichi Himori

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Waiting woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...

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Cast: Kaoru Futaba

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

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Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

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Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

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

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

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Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

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Cast: Michiko Kuwano

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

1957 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

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

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akio Isono

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi