Yōnosuke Toba Movies

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

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

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

1949 Japanese movie

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Romantic melodrama

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Jidaigeki from 1940

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

Japanese drama film.