Seiji Nishimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōko Iida

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

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Cast: Shusuke Agata

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayuko Hirano

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Japanese Warmovie

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Inoue

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Waiting woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Genre: History

Cast: Shin Saburi