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Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and...
Sun over the River
1959 Japanese movie
Zattō ni hikarume
Oogonju
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Turbid youth
Zesshou
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
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...
Island of Horrors
1938 Theater of Life adaptation.
Jinsei Gekijo: Zankyaku hen
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...
Saigo no totsugeki
A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.
A Thousand Standards of Stone
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
I Am Waiting
Night in Hawaii
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
Theater
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.
Earth
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
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki...
Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
Phoenix
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex...
Police Officer
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...
Exiled to Hell
A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
Crazy Jailbreak
君と僕
Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...
The Daughter of the Samurai
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...
The Grand Master
1945 Japanese movie
Umi no tora
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Metropolitan Symphony
Japanese war film.
Navy
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...
Birth of a Jazz Maiden
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...
祇園物語 春怨
A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of...
G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack
Our Planes Fly South
Hyakumensô
A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village...
Mud and Soldiers
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...
Kōfuku no genkai
Sennichimae fukin
新風
1949 Japanese movie
白頭巾現わる
1947 Japanese movie
Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of...
Twilight Saloon
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
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...
Five Scouts
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Victory Song
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
Nonkina tosan
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...
Delinquent Girl
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 Living Puppet
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...
Tokyo March
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
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
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
Theater of Life: Youth Version
Ashes
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.
The Naked Town
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of...
Golden Valley
The Roar of The Lion
Waiting woman
Waiting Woman
Mother and Child Grass
Family of Love
"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!
Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...
Jigoku no hatoba
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Goblin Courier