Bontarō Miake Movies

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story...

Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.

1945 Japanese movie

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is...

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".

Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

1961 Japanese movie

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...