Movies

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun...

1958 Mito Kōmon film.

Japanese comedy film.

Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.

1962 Japanese movie

The eleventh episode of the Denshichi Torimonocho series. Around the time of Shogun Ienari, a murderer known as a ghost hikyaku appeared in Edo,...

Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the...

Den Shichi of Kurodomon-chō, the best detective in Edo, captured members of a thief gang called "Kitsutsuki," but let three, including the...

Japanese comedy film.

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Japanese crime film

Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by...

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Comedy directed by Torajiro Saito about swordsmen in the era of feudal Japan.