Movies

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki. "...about the unemployed and women forced into prostitution, subjects which most producers, then as now, tended to...

Japanese silent film from 1931.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles...

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...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...