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Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
An Enemy of the People
Directed by Mansaku Itami.
Professional Killer
First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
Secret White Line Zone
Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...
Enomoto's Heaven and Hell
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Zoku Hebihimesama
Romantic melodrama
Stolen Love
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Japanese war-era film
Life Begins at 61
Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
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
The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...
Beni-kōmori - Dai ippen
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
The adventures of the samuraï Chohachiro Tonami continues (sequel to Beni-kōmori - Dai ippen).
Beni-kōmori - Kōhen
Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.
Mito Kômon: Rai Kunitsugu no maki
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
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...
Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu
Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao
Mito Komon - The Secret Letter
Shimizu Jirocho
A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...
Under the Blossoming Peach
The debut film of Shin Toho Productions
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...
Enoken's Kurama Tengu
右門捕物帖 片眼狼
Aa mujo: zenpen
Aa mujo: Kohen
Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.
I Believe I Am Being Followed
War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Kantaro of Ina
Zuku ôoka seidan mazo kaiketsu-hen
Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...
The Fighting Firemen
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Mother
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
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
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...
Chutaro of Banba
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Japanese romance film.
Omoide tsukiyo
Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.
The Fencing Collegian
Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
Shimizu no Jirocho den
Japanese drama film.
Akatsuki no Kyūshū
Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Kenkyō edo-murasaki
Japanese film.
Nangoku taiheiki
1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.
Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin
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
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
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
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
Flirtation in Spring
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...
Okuni and Gohei
The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...
The Way of Drama
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
A Japanese silent film
Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One
A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: The Journey
Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form...
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: Edo Reel
A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: Edo Reel Part 2
The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw.
Ishimatsu from the Forest
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...
The Battle of Kawanakajima
A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.
Both You and I
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
Snow-Flake
1930s Japanese film.
Great Bodhisattva Pass
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
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
This Happy Life
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
The Splendid Gold Mine
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...
Iemitsu and Hikoza
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
Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.
Appeal on the Cross
1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki
Yoki na onna
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Priest of Darkness
Jidaigeki from 1940
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.
Edo Spring
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Japanese historical film.
Kunisada Chūji
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...
Miki, the Swordman
Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
Kuriyama Daizen
Japanese war movie
Numazu Officer School
Gantaro Path
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
Mado Kara Tobidase
Directed by Daisuke Itō.
Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
Japanese movie
Itahachi shima
Five Tokyo Men