Mitsuko Mito Movies

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

Japanese Warmovie

1949 drama film

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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...

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

A 1937 Japanese film.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Japanese drama

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...