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After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but proves his integrity, winning respect and a...

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a...

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

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

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Jidaigeki from 1940

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese...

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

A body is found poisoned in a room of a luxury apartment late at night and a beautiful mother turns herself in to protect her rebellious daughter.