Movies

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named...

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized...

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled...

Keiko Togawa, a chorus girl at the Toyo Theater, is told by director Miyauchi that she has been chosen to play the lead role in the next production.

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

A war propaganda film centered on the mobilization of student soldiers.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

While conducting a crackdown on contraband cigarettes at Ueno Station, inspector Tetsuro Shibuya came across an envelope addressed to Misa Makihara...

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Depicts the bereaved families of soldiers sent to the front.

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.