Itoko Kōno Movies

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

1945 Japanese movie

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...