Movies

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

An Ishiro Honda film.

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

An early Tōhō salaryman musical.

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...