Toshiko Itō

The Battle of Kawanakajima

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

Hyoroku's Dream Tale

The Girl in the Rumor

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed f...

音楽大進軍

A 1943 film.

Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me

Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers...

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl...

The Way of Drama

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture an...

Rainbow Hill

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They ar...

The Poppy

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The Town

Mother's Melody

The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to ext...

Sagohei the Three-footer

Old Songs

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meij...

Botchan

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

Composition Class

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

Ōhinata-mura

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying...

Learn from Experience, Part One

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie,...

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko s...

Young People

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful...

Young Lady

The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to...