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A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fisherman's son, with the two setting off...
Escapade in Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Long Way to Okinawa
1954 Japanese movie
Aizen katsura
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...
The Age of Beginnings
続新入社員十番勝負 サラリーマン一刀流
Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry...
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Kuro-uma no danshichi
An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a...
鬼姫競艶録
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...
Mid-August Commotion
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Moth-eaten Spring
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...
The Man Who Waited
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Woman of Tokyo
Divorce
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...
Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...
Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.
ABC Lifeline
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
Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.
Appeal on the Cross
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
The Storm
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
During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro...
Demon King of Yoja Manor
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
Apart from You
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
1949 Japanese movie
白頭巾現わる
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and...
Stormy Virtue
Japanese youth film about kendo.
Daigaku no kengō: Keiraku no abarenbō
Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut.
Queen of Asia
Japanese comedy film.
日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
Japanese war drama.
Yasen kangofu
Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Kyōen Kobanzame
Japanese crime film.
Sutâ dokusatsu jiken
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...
Dimple of Tokyo
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 film.
稲妻奉行
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
勤王? 佐幕? 女人曼陀羅
Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Kenkyō edo-murasaki
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...
The Shadow Avenger
Japanese mystery thriller.
Late Night Confession
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm...
Twilight Saloon
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
1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
The Poppy
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
Flirtation in Spring
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
First Steps Ashore
Japanese silent film.
Island Girl
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger...
The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
Japanese drama film.
Tsuki yori no haha
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
The Escape
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
Happy Times
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
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at...
Oath on the Burning Sands
Jirocho in Disgrace
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...
Four Marriages
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...
A Pebble by the Wayside
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Equinox Flower
The Prosecutor and His Sister
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Living Image
In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.
Wide and Fertile Land
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
An Enemy of the People
Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
Morishige no demakase shinshi
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
Sky of Hope
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...
The Dead Beauty Incident