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Musume no boken
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....
Women of Ginza
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Striving to Live
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was...
The Lucky General
Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
Yoku
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...
Sanshiro Sugata
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...
Gekimetsu no uta
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
The Stand in Hakone
After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...
Shunjû ittôryû
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
Our Failures
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.
The Rule for a Vagabond
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...
Sunny house
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...
Girl in the Glass
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...
Until Victory Day
1945 Japanese movie
Bravo! Tebare Ishin
Kanchō umi no bara
Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...
Miss Hanako
旗本退屈男 謎の百万両
Kyōshū
First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Seven Faces
Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.
Bannai Tarao Series Demon King of Kyokumadan
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
Golden Devil
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
Golden Devil Part 2
Ryō Hagiwara movie
Genta Shigure
Tale of Jiro
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...
Tsukiyo no kasa
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...
Dislikes
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...
The Lady of Musashino
Uta e! Taiyō
1947 Japanese movie
Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
The Makioka Sisters
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....
Called to the Stand
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...
Temptation
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...
A Slope in the Sun
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...
The Maid's Kid
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...
Temptation on Glamour Island
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Victory Song
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...
Red Pier
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Nonkina tosan
Snow-Flake
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...
Unending Advance
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...
Hungry Soul
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...
Ghost Story of Youth
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...
Dancing Sisters
Lady Chatterley of Japan
Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
Saijo katagi
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...
Fight of the Gamblers
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...
The Flower and the Sword
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
Zoku Shimizu Minato
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
The Dragon Crest
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...
The Symbol of a Man
Nichijô no tatakai
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the...
The Scarred Crest
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...
Hungry Soul, Part II
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...
Burden of Love
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
That Guy and I
A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...
Gate of Flesh
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Ishimatsu of the Forest
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Yoki na onna
The story of five sisters.
Five Sisters
Joshiryōsai
The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill
The Stream of Youth
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...
Explosion!
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
Mado Kara Tobidase
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...
Shojohou
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