Movies

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

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who...

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.