Movies

Film can be viewed on the National Film Archive of Japan YouTube channel under the title...

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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

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

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

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

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

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

Following the accidental death of a logging boss in the Kiso mountains, a local thug pressures the boss's daughter into marriage. When the boss's new...

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

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

1950s Japanese comedy.