Haruyo Ichikawa

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Japanese film.

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruyo Ichikawa

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seinosuke Hayashi

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kusuo Abe

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinshiro Matsumoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Kawakami

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

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Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Action

Cast: Yayoko Ôhara

film directed by Tai Katô

Genre: Action

Cast: Yayoko Ôhara

The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful courtesan Komurasaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tōjūrō Sakata IV

Director Watanabe Kunio The first talkie film by Tamagawa Studio Starring Sugi Kyoji as Hosoi Ichikawa Haruyo as Kinuko Hoshi Reiko as Mitsuko ...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyoji Sugi

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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Cast: Mako Midori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

1951 Japanese movie. The characters of Mito Kōmon and Yaji and Kita are brought together

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

1953 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kuniko Igawa

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

In the eleventh year of the Tempō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by Naritaya,...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio of ronin who manipulate a group of spies, a...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

1946 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirô Izome