Movies

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

Baseball comedy.

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

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000...

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

When Mr. Kurano, a shady Osaka tycoon, had his mistress Yuriko Haruyama run off on him, he hired the bumbling detective Hanawa to track her down....

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign...

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952...

World War II era Japanese adaptation of the popular French play Marius, from over a decade before. A youth is torn between his girlfriend and his...

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

Bored Hatamoto film #20

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...