Filmes

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

1951 Japanese movie

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...