Ryôichi Kikuchi

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...

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Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûji Azuma

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

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Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

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Cast: Koji Nakata

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikaru Hoshi

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi