Musei Tokugawa Movies

Dr Sogawa is considering making his son, Taro, take over the family business, but Taro is completely absorbed in music. Nevertheless, he makes him...

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

film directed by Tai Katô

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

1961 Japanese movie

1944 war movie

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.