Shochiku Movies

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.

A girl who comes to Yokohama from Tsuwano stumbles upon the solution to a mysterious series of explosions. However, when she learns this secret, evil...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

1950 Japanese movie

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to s...

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who work...

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic...

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

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passio...

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora...

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

Japanese youth film.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a ma...

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Japanese comedy film.