Movies

Adapted from a poem, which was composed by poet and sculptor Kotaro Takamura, Chieko-Sho is the story of the artist's wife Chieko. The poet meets a...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths...

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

1950s Japanese comedy.

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

1955 Japanese movie

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....