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Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...
Kwaidan
In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return...
The Burning Prison
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
Jūdai no yūwaku
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...
The Tattered Wings
Song of Love
Jihishincho
Story of young love in the hills.
Beyond the Hills
While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...
Next Door to Happiness
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
White Blaze
1962 Japanese movie
Ai to kanashimi to
Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a...
Nutcracker Fantasy
In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku...
Edo no yubae
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...
情艶一代女
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
1949 drama film
Kaze no ko
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Fountainhead
A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where...
The King of Rowing
A Certain Woman
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
Little Peach
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...
A Carpenter and Children
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
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
1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
Hanzaki Daimyojin, Gorosuke no uta
Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...
Hibari's Tale of Pathos
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...
Night Drum
乾杯!女学生
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...
Thus Another Day
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".
Town of Love
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...
The Golden Demon
Directed by Yutaka Abe.
Five Women Around Him
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...
The Black Current
Chorus of a Million People
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of...
Roughneck From Asama
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
Portrait of Madame Yuki
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...
In Search of Mother
Japanese drama film.
Tsuki yori no haha
The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle. Starting...
Tattoo of Love
Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki...
Young People
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and...
Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...
No Time for Tears
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
The Hidden Treasure
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...
Tokyo March
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...
Maria of the Ant Village
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Drifting
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
Times of Joy and Sorrow
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.
Spring on Leper's Island
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
Tears
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...
City of Love
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
Good Luck to These Two
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...
The Swan Elegy
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...
Twenty-Four Eyes
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
Hearts A-Flutter
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Metropolitan Symphony
Child of the Streets
Ashes
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Who Will Judge Me?
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...
Yakuza of Seki
The Coming of Age
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.
Unripe Fruit
Directed by Eizo Tanaka.
Skull Dance
Warm Current
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...
Koi no rantō
Violence
A country girl Teruko falls in love with the aristocrat Yanagisawa. When she once asks him what the meaning of life is, he responds that it is to...
The Glow of Life