Filmes

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Jidaigeki from 1940

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun...

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese...

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...

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.

1960 Japanese movie

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...