Movies

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Emiko, a shy girl, feels anxious as her classmates celebrate their upcoming weddings, realizing she’s the only one still single. She finds...

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...

The rise of the famed gambler.

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...