Movies

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

Japanese silent film.

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

Lost silent film

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

It is considered to be a lost film.

Hiroo Ikeda movie

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.