Movies

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

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...

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an...

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

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

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

Directed by Kisaburo Kurihara.

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

Directed by Kisaburo Kurihara.