Movies

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Japanese drama film.

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the...

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia...

Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida.

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

1962 Japanese movie

Propaganda film, presumed lost.

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as...

Japanese crime film

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

1962 Japanese movie