Movies

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

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

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

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

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Pinku from 1971.

Japanese drama.

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.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

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...

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...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.