Chieko Sōma Movies

During the Warring States period, immediately after Hideyoshi Hashiba defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at the Battle of Yamazaki, in the village of Ogurisu...

1948 Japanese movie

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association,...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with...

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

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

A national policy film advocating for increased production of aluminum for use in aircraft materials.

A story about volunteering in the rural silk farming industry. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.

Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...