Movies

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...

Dr Sogawa is considering making his son, Taro, take over the family business, but Taro is completely absorbed in music. Nevertheless, he makes him...

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

1961 Japanese movie

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

1944 war movie

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

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...

A short documentary filmed by staff at the Ueno Zoo that documents the behavior of wild animals in the remote regions of Africa.