Musei Tokugawa

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who...

The Legend of the White Serpent

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a sn...

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ag...

Yaji and Kita on the Road

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage,...

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958 Japanese movie

The Battle of Kawanakajima

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle...

Nobuko Rides on a Cloud

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her wha...

A Mother's Love

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

The Living Magoroku

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs a...

The Third President

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Diary of a Nurse

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

The Town

12 Chapters About Women

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was fina...

Until Victory Day

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could...

Yakuza Princess of Edo

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro...

The Dead Beauty Incident

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating...

The Brick Factory Girl

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl...

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...

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Ghost Tower

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

Ghosts Die at Dawn

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if ma...

Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko

Composition Class

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an e...

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

Tipsy Life

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

Namiko

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound S...

Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

The Adventures of Tobisuke

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invit...

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi

1961 Japanese movie

I Am a Cat

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Nanking

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered...

The Admirable Isshin Tasuke!

1945 Japanese movie

Botchan

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Kodakara fūfu

Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or liter...

Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara