Shochiku Movies

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge b...

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

High school student Moe has moved to a new town after the death of her father. Moe’s already having enough trouble fitting into her new class as it is...

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overse...

Three stories develop familiar Anpanman and popular characters gathered together and filled with love and dreams. Every single talk is short, so even...

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walke...

Nezumi, Jack the Mouse is a Japanese urban legend. His passion for money drives a cynical, duplicitous coffin maker to take on Nezumi’s mantle. In thi...

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 1996.

Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed...

Hiroshi Nanjo is an active and tactful youth devoting more of his energies to his part time job than to studying for a college entrance exam. On the o...

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out t...