Hisako Yamane Movies

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film...

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

Film by Buichi Saitô