A Pebble by the Wayside
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...
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An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...
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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...
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History - Part I
History film directed by Tomu Uchida.
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Tale of Jiro
The Crown of Life
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money...
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Tokyo Rhapsody
Film adaptation of the hit song
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A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village...
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New Snow
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn...
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