Yōnosuke Toba Movies

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

1949 Japanese movie

Japanese film.

Romantic melodrama

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

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...

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Young, timid bowmaster Kazuma seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumoured, drove the previous...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Japanese war-era film

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

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

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

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

1930s Japanese film.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass