Tatsuo Saitō

Lost in the Rain

It tells about the women's view on love and marriage through the love affair of three women. Ayako, a rampant c...

Lord Jim

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Prese...

I Was Born, But...

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

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

The Munekata Sisters

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love wit...

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...

Maria of the Ant Village

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic gi...

My Geisha

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, i...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

What Did the Lady Forget?

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

Forbidden Path

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college...

Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom...

Ornamental Hairpin

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patr...

Escapade in Japan

A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriended by a fis...

The Grand Master

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata...

The Lights of Asakusa

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

I Flunked, But...

After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reasses...

The Vampire Moth

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

Mr. Lucky

Morishige, where are you going?

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married......

The Emperor's Hat

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Mother and Child

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mis...

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up...

Days of Youth

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing...

Carmen's Innocent Love

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie

A Ripple in a Morning

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

That Night's Wife

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds...

G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard...

The New Road: Akemi

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she...

Tokyo Chorus

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an olde...

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

Happy Times

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Sinking the Unsinkable

Japanese Warmovie