Movies

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

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

Japanese drama.

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

A man driven mad amid the ravages of war, a woman who never found true love, and an innocent young man—all drawn once again to the military...

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

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

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

An Ishiro Honda film.

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki