Musei Tokugawa Movies

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

film directed by Tai Katô

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

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...

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

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

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

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

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

1961 Japanese movie

1944 war movie

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...

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

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...