Kakuko Chino

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In...

Maria of the Ant Village

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic gi...

At the Side of the Bridge 3

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

The Scarlet Camellia

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so...

Tomorrow's Sun

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

Snow Country

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who...

The Preacher of Love

1961 Japanese movie

Good-for-Nothing

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom...

Double Wedding

At the Side of the Bridge

1962 Japanese movie

Mama, I Need You!

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unpr...

Records of loyal vassals

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their maste...

Ottamage ningyo monogatari

1962 Japanese movie

At the Side of the Bridge 4

Street of Love and Hope

The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, and his car...

Kyūjin ryokō

1962 Japanese movie

Dash to the Sun

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the sto...

Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５

Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya." There is...

Zoku aizen katsura

1962 Japanese movie

Furimuita hanayome

Japanese comedy film.

Heso no taisho

1962 Japanese movie

Denshichi Torimonocho: Silver Snake Spell

The eleventh episode of the Denshichi Torimonocho series. Around the time of Shogun Ienari, a murderer known as...

京化粧

Volunteering for Villainy

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

Netsuai sha

Silver Boots

Shochiku movie, starring Yumi Kaoru

At the Side of the Bridge 2

1962 Japanese movie

Monrō no yōna onna

1964 Japanese movie

Noren to hanayome

Romantic comedy

Flower in a Storm

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Only She Knows

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though sh...

Ano hito wa ima

1963 Japanese movie

Kono ni uruwashi

1962 Japanese movie

The Call of Flesh

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissat...

Enraptured

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of...