Movies

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

Japanese film from 1929.

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 comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin...

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman promised to another. When betrayal and heartbreak...

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...