Film★ 7.31965Seisaku's WifeOn the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.Open details →
Film★ 8.21965Red BeardAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.Open details →
Film★ 6.81964Cruel Story of the Shogunate's DownfallA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.Open details →
Film★ 7.01961An Urban AffairFollow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.Open details →
Film1961An Angel is Chasing MeA comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only to find himself embroiled in a thrilling and hilarious journey involving money and women.Open details →
Film★ 9.01959Samurai in the OfficeThe fourth "Diary of a Successful Salaryman" feature.Open details →
Film★ 10.01959The Adventures of Sun Wu KungThe mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.Open details →
Film★ 7.01958The Naked GeneralA film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.Open details →
Film★ 10.01957Teenage SazaeAdaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.Open details →
Film★ 8.01956Masura o hashutsu fukaiBased on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.Open details →
Film1955His Highness SurabayaHisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend to be a king of a remote, undiscovered island, and becomes a media sensation.Open details →
Film1954Family Affairs — They're Stupid, Aren't They?Tonii is a salesman at a mortgage company, and although he is in a romantic relationship with Haruko, a typist at the company, they cannot get married because they have nowhere to live. Growing impatient, Haruko declares, “As long as he can support us, I’d even marry an old man,” leaving Tonii deeply troubled.Open details →
Film★ 8.01953Jirocho, the HuntedA wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.Open details →
Film★ 10.01953Jirocho's Home-ComingJirocho's Tale of Three Provinces IV: All Gathered at Shimizu Harbor is the forth installment in the Jirocho's Tale of Three Provinces series.Open details →
Film1950Tanuki Ginza o arukuA lighthearted musical comedy in which a tanuki detective runs amok chasing a tanuki murderer who has disguised himself as a human and fled into the bustling streets of Ginza.Open details →
Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuruFilm1950Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuruYoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and Hanayama—and centered around Yumi, the beautiful dancer who serves as their mascot—they form a poor but cheerful group of five.Open details →
