A Pebble by the Wayside

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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Five Scouts

Five Scouts

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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Submarine Number One

Submarine Number One

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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銃後に咲く

銃後に咲く

History - Part I

History - Part I

History film directed by Tomu Uchida.

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Gion Shigure

Gion Shigure

Tale of Jiro

Tale of Jiro

The Crown of Life

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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Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

Tokyo Rhapsody

Tokyo Rhapsody

Film adaptation of the hit song

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Mud and Soldiers

Mud and Soldiers

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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The General, Staff and Soldiers

The General, Staff and Soldiers

New Snow

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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