Masaru Kodaka

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shoji Nakayama

With the object of discovering the male accomplice of Hideko, a bad girl, Michiko, a police-woman, disguises herself and infiltrates a gang. Then in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kinuko Obata

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jūzaburō Akechi

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jūzaburō Akechi

Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Naoko Kubo

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gen Funabashi

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Naoko Kubo

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayumi Ozora

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most...

Genre: War

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

Genre: War

Cast: Isao Kimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

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Cast: Kogiku Hanayagi

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryūzaburō Nakamura

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūzaburō Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Utsui

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara