Kenichi Miyajima

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tokihiko Okada

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Japanese silent film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Hanabu

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

This is a classic Japanese Ghost Story.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kimiko Hara

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

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Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Abe

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bontarō Miake

An old man known as a mining king was found killed by a “golden bullet”. The first to be suspected was the phantom thief at large known...

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Cast: Toppa Ichiki

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Genre: War

Cast: Toru Hirose

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...

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Cast: Taro Marui

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Cast: Michiko Kuwano

A dead lover returns as a ghost

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Usami

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Jun Fujimaki

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kashichi Shimada

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jun Negami

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka