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1951 Japanese movie
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Stakeout
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
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
The Rickshaw Man
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
The Devil of Edo
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
Flowing
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...
The Munekata Sisters
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...
Floating Clouds
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Carmen Comes Home
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...
Immortal Love
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
The Wiser Age
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...
Untamed Woman
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...
Yearning
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.
Tokyo Chorus
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
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
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
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...
Devil's Temple
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...
Tojuro's Love
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
An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...
Until Victory Day
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
Carmen's Innocent Love
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Danger Stalks Near
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
The Garden of Women
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
Oh, My Son!
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...
The River Fuefuki
Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts...
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest...
My Daughter's Only Wish
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
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
Times of Joy and Sorrow
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...
Hideko the Bus Conductress
9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
A Gentle Breeze With Father
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...
Moment of Terror
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
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...
Two Iida
Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...
Miss Hanako
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...
The Monkey King
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...
Home Sweet Home
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...
The New Road: Akemi
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...
Horse
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
Where Chimneys Are Seen
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...
Lightning
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...
Sasaki Kojiro
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Men vs. Women
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
A Wife's Heart
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Flying in the Air
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...
The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers...
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
Happiness of Us Alone
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips...
Ginza Cancan Girls
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
A Flower Blooms
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...
My Hobo
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
Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
Composition Class
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...
Bellflower
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...
365 Nights
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Ichiyo Higuchi
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
The First Kiss
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...
Ballad of a Workman
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
Flirtation in Spring
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Lord for a Night
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Onna keizu
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
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
Three Women of the North
A woman looks after her father in law.
The Twilight Years
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Song of the Flower Basket
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
Those Who Make Tomorrow
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
Mother
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...
Eyes of Children
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...
The Day Before
Snow-Flake
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
Schoolgirl Records
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
Senka o koete
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...
Mother Country
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
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....
Dancers of Awa
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...
The Opium War
Reijin
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...
The Layabout and Seabathing
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Yoki na onna
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
Passion
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...
Chocolate and Soldiers
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...
The New Road: Ryota
Hyoroku's Dream Tale
Sagohei the Three-footer
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...
World of Love
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Hideko the Cheerleader
Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...
The Kingdom of Spectacles
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...
Musashibo Benkei
Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
Invitation to Happiness
A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...
Rainbow Hill
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
Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.
Flower Picking Diary
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone...
Beautiful Departure