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Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...
Three Faces
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Drunken Angel
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
Itsudemo yume o
Dotanba - Last Minute
Dotanba
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
The Rickshaw Man
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Love's Cheerleader
1962 Japanese movie
The Crimson Sky
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...
A Story of Floating Weeds
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
Sanshiro of Ginza
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
The Stand in Hakone
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.
Middle-Aged Man
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
The Only Son
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
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
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Nobuko
Arashi no naka no shojo
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...
Wind and waves of the South
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...
An Inn in Tokyo
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...
What Did the Lady Forget?
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...
Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.
Tokyo Chorus
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...
Yami wo saku kuchibue
Karabotan
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
The Wild Geese
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...
Passing Fancy
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
Summer Clouds
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...
A Mother Should Be Loved
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
Flower Shop Curtain
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
The Body
Utsukushiki Rinjin
Divorce
Your Favourite
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...
Sailor
Pig and Goldfish
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...
Woman in the Mist
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...
The Genealogy of Women
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...
Housewife Camellia
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Mother is Strong
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...
Flower
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
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
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...
Forever a Woman
A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke
Two Lanterns
On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...
Kagebōshi
1950 Japanese movie
Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...
Young Guy at Sea
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
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...
Gamblers' Luck
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...
I Graduated, But...
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...
Fighting Yasubei
All is Well
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa
Arupusu no wakadaishô
Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the...
The Young Ace in the South Pacific
A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.
Bravo, Young Guy
A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.
Okinawa
Shin kitsune to tanuki
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
The Lady and the Beard
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 period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...
Okoto and Sasuke
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...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...
Stray Dog
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...
A Certain Woman
1958 Japanese movie
Hana no yukyo-den
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
A Wanderer's Notebook
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...
The Dancing Girl of Izu
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
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Burden of Life
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Spring Awakens
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
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...
Until the Day We Meet Again
おヤエの女中と幽霊
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...
Policeman's Diary
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
A Mother's Love
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Beyond the Hills
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Japanese drama film.
The Motherless
Tonari no yome
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Japanese Warmovie
Sinking the Unsinkable
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...
The Other Woman
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...
Detective Duel
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...
Yellow Crow
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...
The Ditch
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
Flirtation in Spring
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
Jubilation Street
Japanese comedy film.
Akireta musumetachi
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
First Steps Ashore
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...
Las Vegas Free-For-All
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Men vs. Women
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
The Cock Crows Twice
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Moon Over the Ruins
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Darkness at Noon
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
Sir Galahad in Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...
Pride of the Campus
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
Happy Times
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.
Campus A Go-Go
A 1937 Japanese film.
Goodbye to the Front
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...
The Naked Sun
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Tokyo Sweetheart
Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
Diary of Forsaken Love
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
Growing Up
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...
An Innocent Maid
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...
Treasure Mountain
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...
Physical Beauty
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
Nippon no obaachan
Wakôdo no uta
A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
Hot Spring Doctress
College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his...
Let's Go! Young Guy
The Beauty Expert
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his...
College Champ
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
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
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Family Meeting
Futari dake no hashi
An Ishiro Honda film.
Echo Mountain
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection...
Come Marry Me
Izu no musumetachi
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
The Eleventh Hour
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
Days of Youth
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.
Sword of Penitence
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...
On Wings of Love
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
College Is a Nice Place
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...
Still I Live On
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
Twice on a Certain Night
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...
Stepbrothers
The Sandal Keeper
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....
Sanshiro Sugata
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
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...
The Young Ace in Hawaii
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...
Typhoon
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...
Love
Period film from 1934.
With a Single Sword Bale
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...
The Hill is Full of Flowers
ペ子ちゃんとデン助
1961 Japanese movie
Lovers of Ginza
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...
The Samurai of Edo
The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series
Circuit-A-Go-Go
Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.
Young Guy - The Sky is Ours!
Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand
Young Guy in New Zealand
Young Guy graduates from University.
Young Guy - Freshman
Yuzo Kayama visits Brazil
Young Guy in Rio
A continuation of the prior film (影法師).
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Guntō nanban-sen