Kyōko Asagiri

A Last Note

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old fri...

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

At the End of the Clouds

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Iki na fûraibô

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Ishimatsu of the Forest

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and...

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature fi...

Otoko no iki

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the...

Tokyo Lullaby

When Koichi Hamanaka returns after his mysterious disappearance years earlier, journalist Asakura who befriende...

君と僕

Suzhou Nights

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Jap...

Waiting Woman

Waiting woman

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s l...

Theater

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Monkey Business