Filmes

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Japanese Warmovie

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.