Makoto Kobori

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

Marital Relations

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affa...

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

新遊侠伝

Girls in the Orchard

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditio...

Bot-chan

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Santōshain to onna hisho

Japanese film.

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Fantasy of Youth

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Rinchi

Japanese noir.

Guntō nanban-sen

1950 Japanese movie

Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie

Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood

Fighting Fire Fighter

The Great White Tiger Platoon

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial tr...

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melanc...

The Man Who Has Returned

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Kokoro tsuki nogotoku

1947 Japanese movie

Yaji Kita Cat Ghost Road

Film about Ghost-cat.

新遊侠伝　遊侠往来

Tomorrow's Happiness

New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain

Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As he follows...

Theater

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

Koi rōka

While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a youn...

Tales of a Drifter

Fujisancho

Fūryū ajiro gasa