Achako Hanabishi

Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And...

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

1962 Japanese movie

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

1957 Japanese movie

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marrying Tsuji, the most beautiful woman in the...

Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and his wet nurse...

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she...

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the...

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

1962 Japanese movie

Film about Ghost-cat.

1949 Japanese film

1950 drama film

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip"...

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

Comedy directed by Torajiro Saito about swordsmen in the era of feudal Japan.

1940 Japanese movie

First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.

A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi (The Millionaire of a Night) and shot by Hiro...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi...

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

Japanese comedy film.

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

A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise of a good-natured fruit vendor and his wife.

Bored Hatamoto movie #12

A 1954 film.

Japanese comedy film.

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Japanese war-era film

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

Newly released from the army, five men return to Tokyo to find no place to live in the bombed-out city, food and necessities rationed out by people...

1961 Japanese movie

1957 Japanese movie

Japanese crime film

A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves".

A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama.

The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jirocho of Shimizu and becoming the strongest in...

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

Film directed by Seiichirô Uchikawa.

1950 Japanese movie

Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!

Eri stars as a jazz-crazy waitress pursuing a singing career.

Three high school girls travel to Osaka to visit a friend and end up on a lively journey through Kyoto, Beppu, and Aso. Along the way they meet...

In 1940 Osaka, a celebrated shamisen performer lives fast as war and shifting tastes erode his fame. The daughter of a restaurant owner quietly loves...

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo, this movie...

When pickpocketing runs rampant, detectives step up their game. Yazaki, a detective at the Ohira Private Detective Agency who graduated from the...

Princess Yuzuki, the only daughter of Moonlight Castle had no shortage of people asking for her hand. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, the...

After graduating from detective school, Achao and Entaro received their certificates and launched a private detective agency. One night, while...

Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was...