Michiko Kuwano

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their...

Mr. Thank You

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Iz...

What Did the Lady Forget?

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osak...

A Hero of Tokyo

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the ti...

Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie

A Brother and His Younger Sister

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger...

Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Hotaru no hikari

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone w...

Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie

Eclipse

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishi...

Surging Waves

Flower

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and g...

Men vs. Women

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Middle-Aged Man

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

Family Meeting

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

A Man's Recompense: Part 1

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at...

The Young Women of Izu

Victory of Women

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative pr...

Let's Go in Good Spirits

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (...

New Woman Question and Answer

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The...

The Tree of Love

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with...

Marching Song

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Him, Her, and the Boys

A Japanese film

Family Diary

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get...

A Man's Recompense: Part 2

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at...

Forget Love for Now

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Theater

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