Dragnet Girl
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
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A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...
See moreThe Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor...
See moreA Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...
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When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home...
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Directed by Daisuke Ito.
See moreOur Neighbor, Miss Yae
Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...
See moreA face glowing at night
Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he...
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Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and...
See moreJapanese Girls at the Harbor
Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry...
See moreLearn 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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Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
See moreThe Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
See moreLearn 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...
See more東海水滸伝
1945 Japanese movie
See moreSaheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
See moreGreat X
A 1948 Japanese film.
See moreThe Boss's Son at College
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...
See moreMoth-eaten Spring
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
See moreThe Official And The Princess of Thieves