Yōnosuke Toba

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father ...  (more)

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.  (more)

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.  (more)

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes ...  (more)

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A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.  (more)

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."  (more)

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumored, drove the previous champion (Kazuma’s father) to suicide. Possessed of much raw talent, Kazuma is ...  (more)

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

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.  (more)

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.  (more)

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until ...  (more)

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war ...  (more)

Directed by Mansaku Itami.  (more)

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief  (more)

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form of redemption.  (more)

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief  (more)

Directed by Daisuke Itō.  (more)

1930s Japanese film.  (more)

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass  (more)