Musei Tokugawa Movies

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

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

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

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

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

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

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

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

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

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

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

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...

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...