The Way of Drama

The Way of Drama

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

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Composition Class

Composition Class

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

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Learn from Experience, Part Two

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

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The Girl in the Rumor

The Girl in the Rumor

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...

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Learn from Experience, Part One

Learn from Experience, Part One

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

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Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but...

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The Battle of Kawanakajima

The Battle of Kawanakajima

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

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Old Songs

Old Songs

Mother's Melody

Mother's Melody

音楽大進軍

音楽大進軍

A 1943 film.

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Botchan

Botchan

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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Hyoroku's Dream Tale

Hyoroku's Dream Tale

Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori

Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun...

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Sagohei the Three-footer

Sagohei the Three-footer

Young People

Young People

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher...

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Ōhinata-mura

Ōhinata-mura

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from...

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The Poppy

The Poppy

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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Rainbow Hill

Rainbow Hill

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

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