Seiji Nishimura

There Was a Father

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor...

I Was Born, But...

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk,...

Dragnet Girl

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfrie...

A Story of Floating Weeds

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son,...

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a...

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to p...

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...

Rira no hana wasureji

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from...

The Lights of Asakusa

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu'...

Hotaru no hikari

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

Morning for the Osone Family

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie

Every-Night Dreams

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-hu...

Children in the Wind

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and a...

Men vs. Women

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

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Japanese war movie.

Four Seasons of Children

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father become...

Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Introspection Tower

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretaker...

Our Planes Fly South

Passing Fancy

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young...

Middle-Aged Man

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

Half Virgin

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is al...

Weeds with flowers

Weed with Flowers

Temptation

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Yurusareta ichiya

Utsukushiki Rinjin

Waiting Woman

Waiting woman

Sumida River

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mo...