BÚSQUEDA
A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...
The Day Before
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...
Rogue
Japanese noir.
Rinchi
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Love's Cheerleader
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
Oogonju
1961 Toei comedy
Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Women Doing Time
Story of young love in the hills.
Beyond the Hills
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...
Seisaku's Wife
1962 Japanese movie
Kiriko no unmei
The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...
The Road I Travel with You
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark...
The Old Man of the Propeller
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...
Wife of a Lily
Kyū-chan ondo
Sutekina 16-sai
A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...
Under the Blossoming Peach
9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
A Gentle Breeze With Father
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...
Currents of Youth
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
Love for an Idiot
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...
大当り男一代
直八子供旅
1950s Japanese comedy.
Third Class Executives
1949 Japanese film
Odoroki ikka
1950 drama film
Blue Sky Angel
Danchi fujin
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...
Mama, I Need You!
A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.
Pastoral Symphony
Jidaigeki by Tai Kato
The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a...
My Geisha
Akogare no Hawaii kôro
憧れのハワイ航路
Kodakara fūfu
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...
Green Earth
Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...
The Fighting Firemen
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
Ginza Cosmetics
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...
Hideko the Bus Conductress
1940 Japanese movie
明朗五人男
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...
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.
Song of Happiness
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
A Mother's Love
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Love Letter
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...
Marriageable Age
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.
Geisha Waltz
Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...
Amakara chindōchū
Japanese musical.
A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
I Am a Cat
Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi...
Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki
Japanese comedy film.
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
Boss Takes to the Road
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...
Karayuki-san
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
This Happy Life
A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him,...
The Song Lantern
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...
Nonki saiban
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...
The Ditch
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
Nightshade Flower
Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man...
Snake Woman's Curse
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Sing, Young People
Japanese drama film.
Tsuki yori no haha
I Sell My Husband
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...
The Blue Sky Maiden
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Wakai musumetachi
Red Love, Green Love
Japanese domestic drama.
A Woman's Sorrows
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
Wedding Day
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Drifting
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...
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
China Night
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...
Wait for Tomorrow
An Ishiro Honda film.
Mother and Son
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
Good Luck to These Two
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
The Boy Who Came Back
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...
Learn from Experience, Part One
Employee Full of Fight
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...
The Snowy Heron
Tsukinode no ketto
Jacks and Jills
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...
On This Earth
Five Star Private
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Hideko the Cheerleader
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...
Tokyo Profile
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
Invitation to Happiness
Kekkon Sanjûshi
The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...
Image of a Mother
Megitsune Buro
Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda...
Marathon Samurai
1950 Japanese movie
Guntō nanban-sen
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Chained Bitch
1961 Japanese movie
Botchan yarō seizoroi
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...
The Judo Champ