Musei Tokugawa Movies

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...

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

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.

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

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...

1961 Japanese movie

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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

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

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

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

1944 war movie

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...