Movies

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Baseball comedy.

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

Also Known As: Otogi's Voyage Around the World

Costume comedy

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

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 documentary short highlighting the cultural attractions of Ise-Shima National Park in eastern Mie Prefecture, a popular coastal sightseeing...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...

film directed by Tai Katô