Eiran Yoshikawa

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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...

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese...

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to...

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

1945 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with...

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in...

Japanese drama film.

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another.

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

1958 Toei movie.

This is the first film in the third installment of the adventure film for boys that depicts the battle between a thief who calls himself "the secret...

1961 Japanese movie

The fifth installment of the Metropolitan Police Department story series. This time, detectives from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First...

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age...

World War II era Japanese adaptation of the popular French play Marius, from over a decade before. A youth is torn between his girlfriend and his...

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

A state-sponsored film featuring singers who embodied the joys of rural life.

A film adaptation of the María Luz Incident from the early Meiji period that sparked widespread public debate.

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is...

There are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for...

1946 Japanese movie.

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...

Baseball movie.

Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered...

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life are on...

As the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...

A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.