A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful...

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Japanese film.

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world...

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

1945 Japanese movie

Horror film directed by Koji Shima.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The...

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when...

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

1956 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

Japanese drama

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...