Yōnosuke Toba

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...

Romantic melodrama

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Japanese war-era film

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a...

The adventures of the samuraï Chohachiro Tonami continues (sequel to Beni-kōmori - Dai ippen).

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...

Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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 he...

1949 Japanese movie

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Japanese romance film.

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Japanese drama film.

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Japanese film.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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...

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

A Japanese silent film

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honorable side of himself, and maybe some form of...

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.

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...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

1930s Japanese film.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at...

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

Jidaigeki from 1940

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Japanese war movie

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Japanese movie

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

The story of five sisters.

During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natural disasters. Maebashi's boss, Shiroganeya...