Toho Eiga Movies

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of Nagan...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-mi...

Part two of two.

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister behind. While running fr...

Japanese propaganda film

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer Toraiz...

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

A Japanese film from 1963, Directed by Shirô Toyoda.

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest pro...

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.

A record of the people and culture of Beijing

To become a great wrestler, the strongest of the village's young men leaves his fiancée to join a sumo stable in Edo.

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

A documentary on the living practices of farmers in rural japan during the 1940s.