Hideo Fujino

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

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 musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

Directed by Eizo Tanaka. Only 8 minutes of film is known to have survived.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Genre: War

Cast: Denmei Suzuki

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

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

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Cast: Kichinosuke Kinoshita

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

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

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

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

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 film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Inoue

The Siege of Osaka

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Hayama

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Genre: History

Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuko Wakamizu

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Cast: Tsuzuya Moroguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denmei Suzuki

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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Cast: Jun Arai

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

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

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

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

An early Japanese film

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and...

Genre: History

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

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Cast: Shusuke Agata

1939 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada