Movies

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the...

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...