Katsuhiko Haida

Escapade in Japan

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fis...

With Songs in My Heart

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a...

Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron

A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai...

Ginza Cancan Girls

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becomin...

The Burning Sky

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

祇園物語　春怨

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between f...

Battle Troop

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends,...

Miss Hanako

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berk...

Tokyo File 212

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War,...

The Singing Baseball Kid

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports,...

Nagurikomi Songokū

Second sequel to Saiyuki (1952)

Uta e! Taiyō

1945 Japanese movie

Nonkina tosan

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

Hideko the Cheerleader

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for th...

Yoki na onna

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Uta no Myojo

Drama directed by Kōzō Saeki.

花嫁と乱入者

Autumn Interlude

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama)...