Den Obinata

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeko Aizome

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Venice Film Festival 1939

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shozaburo Abe

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Genre: War

Cast: Den Obinata

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Part two of two.

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Genre: Drama

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Part one of two.

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Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

This movie is presumed to be lost.

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Cast: Isuzu Yamada

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Choi Woon-bong

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokudani, a place along his journey through various...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin,...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara