Movies

1961 Japanese movie

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory.

1963 Japanese movie

Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

1962 Japanese movie

A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the...

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...