Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His...

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Story of a bandit king part 2.

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

Story of a bandit king.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.