Movies

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

1961 Japanese movie

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...

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

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Japanese film.

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

1956 Japanese movie

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...