Movies

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

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...

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

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...

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...

A Japanese silent film

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Japanese historical film.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

1930s Japanese film.

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Romantic melodrama

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

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...

1949 Japanese movie