Hyo Kitazawa

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mieko Takamine

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Takada

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Nakakita

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

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Cast: Yukiko Shimazaki

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yōtarō Katsumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

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Cast: Ai Saotome

Japanese domestic drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichiro Fujiyama

Genre: War

Cast: Hyo Kitazawa

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Den Obinata

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Jidaigeki from 1940

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoko Date

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Takada

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Kiritachi

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki