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During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...
Five Men of Edo
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...
A Good Man, A Good Day
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...
Omatsuri hanjiro
1962 Japanese movie
Yume de aritai
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
Red Bud and White Flower
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds...
The Wanderer
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.
The Beauty of the Evening Sky
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
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...
Homecoming
Kono ni uruwashi
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
When We Came Back
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...
The 47 Ronin
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...
Hotaru no hikari
一本刀土俵入
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...
Flower Season
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Nobuko
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...
The Inugami Family
Futari no Koibito
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...
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail...
Rebellion Reward
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Pomegranate Time
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
Theater
1957 Japanese movie
Utau yajikita kogane dōchū
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...
The Flower is not False
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....
Moon of the Plateau
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...
South Wind
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
The Trio's Engagements
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
Love Under the Crucifix
San'nin musume kanpai!
Love's Family Tree
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Elegy of the North
Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...
治郎吉格子
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
Ejima and Ikushima
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....
Rira no hana wasureji
A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...
Castle of Flames
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...
Dancing Girl
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between...
Aruhi watashi wa
旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....
The Lights of Asakusa
憧れの星座
Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
彼を殺すな
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....
Once More
Escape from Prison
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...
So Goes My Love
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....
Freedom School
Naite waratta hanayome
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
Wife
1945 Japanese movie
Ikeru isu
To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...
Queen Bee
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...
An Ocean to Cross
新風
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...
South Wind 2
1951 Japanese movie
Minami kaze
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
The Sands of Kurobe
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is...
Dreaming People
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...
The Phoenix
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...
Memories of You
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first...
Appassionata
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...
Here Because of You
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...
Points and Lines
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....
Street of Ronin
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...
Bright Sea
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...
The Masseurs and a Woman
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Victory Song
A 1937 Japanese film.
Renai muteki kantai
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...
The Golden Demon
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Vermilion and Green
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...
Song of Farewell
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
Fantasy of Youth
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Moon Over the Ruins
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...
Eyes of Children
Japanese mystery film.
Man of Thirteen Eyes
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
The Image of Mother
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...
Tokyo Omnibus
Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title.
Let Us Love
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
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
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Lovers' Duet
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
Lover's Duet
Aspiration
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
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...
Warm Current
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Japanese war movie.
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Omoide no borero
Rumba of Passion
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
The Incorrigible
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...
Elegy
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...
Let's Go in Good Spirits
Waiting woman
Waiting Woman
Aa seishun 1951
Ah Youth
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
Dance of the Capital