Hyo Kitazawa

Nobuko to Obachan

The 9th NHK Asadora. Starring Naoko Otani as a young woman living with her grandmother.

Musume to Watashi

A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I featured a Japa...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

Those Who Make Tomorrow

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

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...

Red Peony of Night

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment an...

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...

The Angry Rambler

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

The Outsiders

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly isl...

Ichiyo Higuchi

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

The Town

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And desp...

Mother Never Dies

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

Ninjutsu: Sasuke Saruhi

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

Story of Leadership

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently trai...

Shanghai Landing Party

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated wa...

Lord for a Night

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the gove...

The Poppy

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the...

元祿美少年記

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for...

Wakare no uta

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

Actress

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a grea...

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Continuation

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an acciden...

Let's Go, Grandma!

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the...

An Inn at Osaka

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. H...

Young Guy in Rio

Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his professor. There...

Rebel Against Glory

Japanese Women's Textbook

I Am a Cat

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Bellflower

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story...

A Woman's Sorrows

Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted t...

Karayuki-san

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns...

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

The Beautiful Hawk

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (To...

Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a cla...

Flowers Blooming In the Storm

Jidaigeki from 1940