Movies

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

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

When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against...

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...