Chieko Sōma

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1948 Japanese movie

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

The protagonist descends from the mountains with a huge amount of panned gold dust. Upon learning of his wealth, all sorts of people, driven by greed...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

The story of the Peanuts.

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and...

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

Original work by Yokomizo Seishi. The third part of Kindaichi Kosuke's story, which was collected by Chie Kataoka.

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

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

1945 Japanese movie

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

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.

Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kongoin Ketto (1942, also called Nitoryu Kaigen) also...

Film directed by Kôzô Saeki

The second installment in the crime reporter series, this is a full-fledged crime reporter film depicting a scoop battle among crime reporters...

The story centers on the fierce competition among newspaper reporters stationed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as they race to break...

A story about volunteering in the rural silk farming industry. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.

A national policy film advocating for increased production of aluminum for use in aircraft materials.

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the villain’s niece and...

A pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.

Enoken's first film at Daiei.

It was a sanatorium in the highlands. Patients such as Totsuka, Hirota, and Hashida were battling their illnesses under the devoted care of Michiko,...

Set against the backdrop of the Great Fire of Edo, this story depicts the conflict between the town fire brigades and the daimyo’s fire brigades.

A bold and cheerful tale that broke new ground in the historical drama genre.

During the Warring States period, immediately after Hideyoshi Hashiba defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at the Battle of Yamazaki, in the village of Ogurisu...

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

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Set against the backdrop of the Warring States period, this thrilling period drama follows the "Demon of Iga," a bloodthirsty and resolute Koga-ryu...

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

A tale of melancholy centered on a couple of engineers at a power plant in the north and a pure romance with a female engineer.