Filmes

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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...

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

1950 Japanese movie

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

1962 Japanese movie

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

1958 Japanese movie

Japanese Warmovie

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

Japanese war movie.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.