Shigeru Ogura

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

1957 crime film

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique...

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Japanese film.

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese film about motorcycle racing.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Early pinku.

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...

Japanese mystery film.

Japanese comedy film.

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito....

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Lost silent film

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

If you throw this child away

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.