Kan Sugi

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

The Ghost of Yotsuya

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wi...

Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Bridge of Japan

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as...

Mole Alley

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old...

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".

A Mother's Love

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Kekkon Sanjûshi

Black Cat Mansion

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to fi...

The Symbol of a Man

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

The Lady Vampire

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who d...

音楽大進軍

A 1943 film.

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense cont...

Stolen Love

Romantic melodrama

Living Image

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him...

Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun...

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

1962 Japanese movie

Snow-Flake

The Tale of Jiro

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life...

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

Yasubei Nakayama

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord K...

Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie

日本敗れず

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo...

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Y...

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

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond...

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

トップ屋を殺せ

Japanese crime film.

Haunted Cave

The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before...

大吉ぼんのう鏡

関八州喧嘩陣

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

女大学野球狂時代

Japanese comedy film.

This Happy Life

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

Vampire Bride

Kind-hearted girl next door beauty (Junko Ikeuchi) turns the heads of all the handsome boys, so three other mod...