Hisako Yamane

The Life of Oharu

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of...

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discove...

Song of the White Orchid

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region...

Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Currents of Youth

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the governme...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying up...

A Slope in the Sun

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of...

Ghost Story of Youth

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and S...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of hi...

Travelling Actors

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Three Women of the North

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the a...

Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

The Moon Has Risen

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war....

Who's the Real Killer

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

The Man Who Waited

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

Aijô ni tsuite

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died fro...

My Wonderful Yellow Car

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about...

Snow-Flake

Tokkan ekichô

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

The Cruel Sea

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES tre...

This Day's Life

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

Windy Street

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each...

Old Songs

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meij...

365 Nights

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

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

1952 Japanese movie

Sanshiro of Ginza

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Sekidô matsuri

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Zesshou

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a fores...

Omokage no machi

A 1942 film.