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The Last Days of Planet Earth
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, calling his words heresy and his wife flees with a book of Nostradamus’s predictions… In the present day, Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre goings on which seem all to familiar to the prophet's predictions…Year:
1981
The Last Days of Planet Earth
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, calling his words heresy and his wife flees with a book of Nostradamus’s predictions… In the present day, Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre goings on which seem all to familiar to the prophet's predictions…Year:
1981
Tsuma to onna no aida
Year:
1976
I Am a Cat
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!Year:
1975
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.Year:
1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.Year:
1974
Will to Conquer
The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration.Year:
1970
Portrait of Hell
The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical daimyo Horikawa (Nakamura). It is based on the 1918 short story Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.Year:
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.Year:
1969
Shroud of Snow
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.Year:
1967
No Greater Love
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.Year:
1966
Illusion of Blood
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.Year:
1965
Nami kage
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.Year:
1965
Shutsugeki
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”Year:
1964
ミスター・ジャイアンツ 勝利の旗
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the Yomiuri Giants. Nagashima nickname was 'Mr. Giants.Year:
1964
Samurai Pirate
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.Year:
1963
The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.Year:
1963
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Ensemble comedy.Year:
1963
A Woman's Life
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.Year:
1962
Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.Year:
1962
Doburoku no Tatsu
1962 Japanese movieYear:
1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1962 Japanese movieYear:
1962
Till Tomorow Comes
1962 Japanese movieYear:
1962
Love's Family Tree
Year:
1961
With Wife, Children, and Friends
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.Year:
1961
The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.Year:
1961
Three Young Samurai
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.Year:
1961
Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...Year:
1961
Hunting Rifle
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.Year:
1961
Castle of Flames
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds to be mysterious circumstances, and his mother's married to his uncle, whose ruthless ambition is causing turmoil in the kingdom. Not knowing who to trust, Masato feigns madness, vowing to get to the truth, even though his act causes distress to the girl he loves, who's waited for him all these years. The ghost of his father turns up now and then to show him the way. Meanwhile a peasant revolt is brewing... It all ends tragically.Year:
1960
The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.Year:
1960
A Woman's Testament
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.Year:
1960
The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.Year:
1959
The Ghost of Iwojima
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.Year:
1959
When a Woman Loves
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.Year:
1959
Pilgrimage at Night
Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya of the Shirakaba School.Year:
1959
Flower Shop Curtain
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.Year:
1959
The Makioka Sisters
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.Year:
1959
Zesshou
Year:
1958
The Child Writers
Year:
1958
The Hotelman's Holiday
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.Year:
1958
The Shop Curtain
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.Year:
1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Japanese drama film.Year:
1958
Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herselfYear:
1958
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.Year:
1958
Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.Year:
1957
Roar and Earth
Roar and EarthYear:
1957
Elegy of the North
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.Year:
1957
The Temptress and the Monk
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.Year:
1957
Hadaka no Machi
Year:
1957
Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?Year:
1957
Evening Calm
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.Year:
1957
Muhō Ichidai
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.Year:
1957
Lofty Ambitions
Year:
1957
Typhoon
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one.Year:
1956
Fighting Fire Fighter
Year:
1956
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.Year:
1956
Our Town
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...Year:
1956
The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.Year:
1956
A Rainbow at Every Turn
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Momoko, the eldest, goes out with whomever she wants, thus hiding the trauma caused by seduction and abandonment during the war by young Keita Aoki. One day Keita re-enters her life.Year:
1956
The Maiden Courtesan
Period romantic drama.Year:
1956
Floating Weeds Diary
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, a miners' strike is announced, creating an uproar. In addition, the players find they have been cheated out of their profits by a crooked impresario.Year:
1955
Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.Year:
1955
The Mask and Destiny
Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of tragedies. The central character is a Japanese monarch who would prefer to live a humble existence as a maskmaker. Unfortunately, events -- and destiny -- are against him. When first released, Shuzenji Monogatari was held in far lower esteem than such recent Japanese films as Gate of Hell and Samurai. Nevertheless, the film was selected as an entry at the Venice Film Festival, possibly on the strength of its excellent production values.Year:
1955
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."Year:
1955
Growing Up
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.Year:
1955
A Young Samurai
A jidaigeki movie about the strange fate of Ranmaru Mori.Year:
1955
Goblin Warrior
Year:
1955
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
Year:
1955
浮かれ狐千本櫻
Japanese comedy film.Year:
1954
続変化大名
Year:
1954
Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
Year:
1954
The Messenger from the Moon
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.Year:
1954
Road to Hawaii
A 1954 film.Year:
1954
Student Double Suicide
Year:
1954
素浪人日和
At the Fugenji temple in Koishikawa, Edo, a memorial service for the 49th day after the passing of Kyogoku Takanori, the lord of the Tanba-Miyazu domain, was held. Despite being sons of Takanori, three brothers, who had different mothers, gathered, each having grown up in different circumstances.Year:
1954
An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.Year:
1954
A Certain Woman
Year:
1954
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama.Year:
1953
Hana no shôgai
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His friend, the Kokugaku scholar Nagano Shuzen, introduced him to a captivating shamisen master named Murayama Taka. Naosuke became deeply infatuated with her, disregarding the jealousy of his consort Shizu and the warnings of his senior retainer, Gaiji. However, upon discovering Taka's relationship with Shuzen, Naosuke promptly ended his ties with her.Year:
1953
Wild Lion
A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his father, Kokichi, who lived for the common people, his neighbors and his children. A film about paternal and maternal love and conjugal love in the creation of mankind, about the healing power of which laughter and tears have. The film that became the last work of the giant star Tsumasaburo Bando.Year:
1953
Great Edo Song Festival
The feudal lord Kisaragi Yae no Kami (Minami Komyo) searches for a child he had with a low-borne woman, that was sent away from his home 16 years ago while carrying a special seal. At that time, Kanda's detective Zenshichi (Ichikawa Kodayu II) had three daughters, the third of whom, Omiyo (Misora Hibari), was a skilled singer and an expert with the lasso.Year:
1953
The Battleship Yamato
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".Year:
1953
Bravo! Five Men
A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves".Year:
1953
Lady Chatterley of Japan
Year:
1953
Nonsense - Fireball Boy Thief
The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.Year:
1953
The Last Embrace
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.Year:
1953
珍説忠臣蔵
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.Year:
1953
ひばり姫 初夢道中
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1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
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1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Year:
1952
Ushiwakamaru
Year:
1952
母山彦
Year:
1952
Okuni and Gohei
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 has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.Year:
1952
Foghorn
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.Year:
1952
娘十八びっくり天国
Japanese comedy film.Year:
1952
Man in the Storm
Year:
1952
Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively young men on the R University Rugby Club, Toshio (Tsuruta Koji), Kenkichi (Tabata Yoshio), and Shunzo (Kawada Haruhisa).Year:
1952
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.Year:
1951
のど自慢三羽烏
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1951
Honoo no hada
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1951
Swords and Brocade
A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.Year:
1951
The Man Without a Nationality
Thriller drama by Kon IchikawaYear:
1951
Somersault on the Way
A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an Echigo lion mask, a memento of Chomatsu's deceased father. After several incidents of Echigo lion masks being destroyed in the area, a local kingpin Saheiji shows up at Denbei's demanded he hand over the mask, a request Denbei rejects out of pity for Chomatsu. However, after it is accidentally revealed that the mask contains an important map, Saheiji plots to steal the mask. Chomatsu gets involved after his mother makes a sudden reappearance that sends the boy on a roundabout journey that will reveal the truth about his family.Year:
1950
Snow-Flake
Year:
1950
憧れのハワイ航路
Akogare no Hawaii kôroYear:
1950
Till We Meet Again
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.Year:
1950
Duel in the Sun
A film by Kiyoshi SaekiYear:
1950
Four Seasons of Women
Woman melodrama by Shiro ToyodaYear:
1950
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond on-premises that she's in charge of and cares for. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. The teacher forms a special bond with a child who lives in abject poverty.Year:
1950
Odoroki ikka
1949 Japanese filmYear:
1949
A Woman's Life
Year:
1949
Enoken's Singing Detective Story
A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).Year:
1948
A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.Year:
1948
Spring Awakens
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.Year:
1947
War and Peace
A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.Year:
1947
Chikagai nijuyojikan
1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi ImaiYear:
1947
Four Love Stories
Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.Year:
1947
Eleven High School Girls
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and nodded their heads. This was the beginning of their collective affection for the new Ms. Shiono. The school for girls is a sacred place where the hearts of hundreds of innocent girls should ferment beautifully and freely for the day when they will become wives and mothers to come. How can we abandon them in such a state? Even after the nightmarish war was over, the nightmare remained at Shuei Girls' School.Year:
1946
An Enemy of the People
Tadashi Imai 1946 movieYear:
1946
Uta e! Taiyō
1945 Japanese movieYear:
1945
I Believe I Am Being Followed
Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.Year:
1945
The Way of Drama
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.Year:
1944
This Happy Life
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.Year:
1944
Hot Wind
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast furnaces that prevent increased production. The film was shot on location at the actual Yawata Steel Works for an extended period of time, and special effects were created using a miniature blast furnace that closely reproduces the actual one.Year:
1943
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. Yokaren was highly selective, and thus an object of great fascination and desire for boys and young men. In this Navy–sponsored film, Setsuko Hara plays the daughter of a family that often entertains recruits on their days off—a surrogate sister to many trainees. Her fragile younger brother aspires to join the program, but is rejected. With perseverance and much support from Hara and their mother, he surmounts his weaknesses and becomes a flier.Year:
1943
Military Song of the Morning Mist
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.Year:
1943
Kantaro of Ina
War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.Year:
1943
Omokage no machi
A 1942 film.Year:
1942
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.Year:
1941
Bellflower
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poor young girl, trying to become a teacher on her quest to become independent to be able to look after her younger brother. But then tragedy strikes...Year:
1940
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.Year:
1939
Machi
Year:
1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).Year:
1939
Shimizu Jirocho
Year:
1938
Ōma no tsuji
Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that depicts the murderous world. The turmoil of the end of the Edo period is depicted through the nameless Ichii people, centering on the main character of the Hatamoto collapse that is drunk by the waves of the end of the Edo period.Year:
1938
Mother's Melody
Year:
1937
