Filmes

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

1945 Japanese movie

1952 Japanese movie

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

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

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Japanese mystery thriller.

1951 Japanese movie

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

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