Musei Tokugawa Movies

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Also Known As: Otogi's Voyage Around the World

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

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...

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

Set in a bustling 1950s parlor, a beautiful counter clerk falls for a wealthy businessman’s son, only to have their romance derailed by a...

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

1958 Japanese movie

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

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

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

1961 Japanese movie

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

1944 war movie