A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers...

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by...

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she...

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After...

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese crime film.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though...

Japanese comedy film.

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

1954 Japanese movie

A 1943 film.

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and...