Kaoru Itō

The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

The Burning Sky

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly...

Oath on the Burning Sands

A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woma...

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl...

Mother Never Dies

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

A Woman's Sorrows

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

Hikari to kage (Zenpen)

Part one of two.

The Whole Family Works

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order...

Hikari to kage (Kōhen)

Part two of two.

Keshô yuki

Enoken's Kondo Isami

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Me...

Iron Brothers

It's been a long time since the war. Since we haven't been at war with America yet, there is a line in the movi...

Learn from Experience, Part One

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie,...

Kodakara fūfu

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a...

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko s...

Man of the House

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played b...

Radio Queen

Schoolgirl Records

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.