1956

The Baby Carriage

8/1

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to b...

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The Baby Carriage

1951

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

7/1

1951 Japanese movie

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Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

9/1

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1958

Zesshou

0/0

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their destini...

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Zesshou

1953

About Love

10/1

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her paren...

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About Love

1941

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)

6/1

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)

1941

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)

5/1

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)

1954

Kenkagarasu

0/0

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

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Kenkagarasu

1941

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

7/2

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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

1952

The Life of Oharu

7.73/202

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

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The Life of Oharu

1951

Sekidô matsuri

0/0

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Sekidô matsuri

1951

Wedding March

10/1

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Wedding March

1952

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

0/0

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

1952

Forty-Eight Man

8/1

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Forty-Eight Man

1952

Farewell to Spring

0/0

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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Farewell to Spring

1944

敵は幾万ありとても

0/0

1944 war movie

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敵は幾万ありとても

1950

Sanshiro of Ginza

7/1

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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Sanshiro of Ginza

1945

Tokkan ekichô

7/1

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

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Tokkan ekichô

1942

Onna keizu

8/1

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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Onna keizu

1951

Sasaki Kojiro

6/4

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...

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Sasaki Kojiro

1942

The Man Who Waited

8/1

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snoop...

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The Man Who Waited

1940

Harmonica Boy

0/0

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

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Harmonica Boy

1955

The Moon Has Risen

6.9/26

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her olde...

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The Moon Has Risen

1948

Kuro-uma no danshichi

9/1

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Kuro-uma no danshichi

1947

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

8/1

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

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A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

1942

Currents of Youth

9/1

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latt...

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Currents of Youth

1943

Miss Hanako

9/1

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy...

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Miss Hanako

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

6.6/14

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil...

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

1957

This Day's Life

8/1

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This Day's Life

1954

Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

0/0

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

1954

Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô

0/0

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

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Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô

1945

Hanamuko taiheiki

0/0

1945 Japanese movie

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Hanamuko taiheiki

1940

Travelling Actors

6.375/8

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

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Travelling Actors

1952

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

9/1

1952 Japanese movie

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One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

1955

美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

0/0

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美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

1956

Kobushidake denki

0/0

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

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Kobushidake denki

1954

Kenkyō edo-murasaki

0/0

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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Kenkyō edo-murasaki

1949

Late Night Confession

7/1

Japanese mystery thriller.

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Late Night Confession

1948

365 Nights

6.667/3

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and d...

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365 Nights

1944

Harbor of Life

0/0

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

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Harbor of Life

1944

This Happy Life

6.3/6

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

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This Happy Life

1946

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

7.5/2

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes popu...

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A Descendant of Urashima Taro

1958

A Slope in the Sun

5.7/7

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receiv...

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A Slope in the Sun

1945

Three Women of the North

10/1

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

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Three Women of the North

1944

The Cruel Sea

0/0

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

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The Cruel Sea

1942

Omokage no machi

8/1

A 1942 film.

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Omokage no machi

1946

Both You and I

8/2

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

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Both You and I

1950

Snow-Flake

7.5/2

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Snow-Flake

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

6.6/15

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d...

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

1956

Song of the Underworld

0/0

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshi...

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Song of the Underworld

1939

Old Songs

0/0

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends to...

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Old Songs

1944

Four Marriages

8/1

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he i...

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Four Marriages

1941

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

7/2

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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni

9/1

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Shiawase wa doko ni

1951

Swords and Brocade

9/1

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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Swords and Brocade

1953

My Wonderful Yellow Car

7/2

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My Wonderful Yellow Car

1957

Who's the Real Killer

10/1

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

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Who's the Real Killer

1955

Iroha Elegy

0/0

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Iroha Elegy

1944

Idaten Kaido

0/0

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Idaten Kaido

1939

Song of the White Orchid

8/1

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the...

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Song of the White Orchid

1939

Numazu Officer School

7/1

Japanese war movie

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Numazu Officer School

1955

Ghost Story of Youth

10/1

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and chi...

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Ghost Story of Youth

1959

Windy Street

6/1

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film off...

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Windy Street

1957

The Awakening

0/0

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

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The Awakening

1956

Love is Beyond the Falling Stars

0/0

Based on the collection of letters by Ozaki Hidemi, who was implicated in the Sorge spy incident, the film depicts the bond between a husband and wife...

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Love is Beyond the Falling Stars

1950

Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love

0/0

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn!

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Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love

1946

Hinoki Butai

0/0

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for t...

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Hinoki Butai

1956

Ai wa furu hoshi no kanata ni

0/0

Film by Buichi Saitô

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Ai wa furu hoshi no kanata ni

1937

Young Lady

8/1

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

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Young Lady

1941

It's Paradise When One Sings

0/0

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It's Paradise When One Sings

1948

365 Nights: Tokyo

8/1

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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365 Nights: Tokyo

1953

Waseda University

0/0

In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortun...

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Waseda University

1954

Autumn Interlude

0/0

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her fat...

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Autumn Interlude

1958

Unga

0/0

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

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Unga

1953

Demon Sword

0/0

A young swordsman takes on the mysterious, deadly “Demon Sword” wielded by a nihilistic master swordsman who trusts neither human compassion nor a wom...

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Demon Sword

1956

Kobushidake denki: Kogane jigoku

0/0

The 1st movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

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Kobushidake denki: Kogane jigoku

1947

Newlywed League Match

0/0

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Newlywed League Match

1948

Oshidori gasa

0/0

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

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Oshidori gasa

1955

Troupers of Asakusa

0/0

On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in on an innocen...

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Troupers of Asakusa

1949

New Wives’ Meeting

0/0

Keiko, Kirie, and Toshi, a trio of close friends, go their separate ways after graduation, vowing to hold a “New Wives’ Meeting” once they are all mar...

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New Wives’ Meeting

1950

Oni azami

0/0

Five years after parting ways, two people who had once envisioned a life together met again: he was a yakuza out of work, and she was a woman of the n...

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Oni azami

1951

Kyūjō hiroba

0/0

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Kyūjō hiroba

1952

Furisode kyōjo

0/0

A handsome man and a beautiful woman who seek to restore the Toyotomi clan by taking in the orphaned Princess Tsuru.

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Furisode kyōjo

1958

The Husband Wore the Apron

0/0

In the Okawa household, Miharu is the breadwinner, while her husband, Soma, handles the domestic chores. One day, a poor student couple moves into the...

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The Husband Wore the Apron

1958

Zoku fûfu hyakkei

0/0

In this sequel to The Husband Wore the Apron, househusband Soma wins a children's literature award, bringing in a windfall of prize money. Meanwhile,...

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Zoku fûfu hyakkei

1953

Asama no karasu

0/0

After killing a man who owed him neither a debt of gratitude nor a grudge, Tokijiro decides to leave the yakuza life behind in accordance with the cod...

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Asama no karasu

1953

Hana no kenkajō

0/0

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Hana no kenkajō

1954

Hana no sando gasa

0/0

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Hana no sando gasa

1949

Ashi o aratta otoko

0/0

A former samurai, whose lover had died while he was traveling, was returning to Edo when he met a woman at Shinagawa-juku.

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Ashi o aratta otoko