Kan Inoue

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.

Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.

Suspense film based on the "Carbine Gang Incident" that happened in June 1954 in Japan.

Japanese film.

A short documentary from the Japanese Imperial Navy about Japanese Fighters in War.

A short documentary from the Japanese Imperial Navy about Japanese Fighters in War.

This was a news film with elements of reenactment. From December 1927 to 1932, 2,000 bus and train drivers were fired, provoking a strike. This film was edited out of footage shot from that strike over a long period.