Kazuo Kubo

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida (Koji Shitara), who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus. Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô and Yoshiko Kuga also star.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

楽しくなるはずの日曜日のデートでことごとく厳しい現実に遭遇して落ち込む恋人たちが、最後にはそれでも明るい未来に希望を抱き絆を強める姿を巨匠・黒澤明監督が描いた瑞々しい感動編。とある日曜日にデートを計画した雄造と昌子。でも、手持ちのお金はたった35円。お金がないなりになんとか工夫して楽しいデートをと考えるのだが、そんな二人に容赦ない現実が待っていた。すっかり惨めな気持ちになって帰路につく二人だったが…。

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

江戸末期、旅の男・長太郎は馬子の勘三とまだ新時代の胎動が届かない木曽の山奥を歩いていた。そこで相棒に逃げられ駕籠と客をもてあましている猪助に出くわした長太郎は、持ち前の気の良さから早速相棒をかついでやるのだった。長太郎と勘三は須原の宿場に滞在したちまち人気者となるが、実は老舗問屋の若旦那である長太郎を、江戸深川の老番頭・清兵衛が連れ戻しにやって来たのだった…。

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Jidaigeki from 1940

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

江戸の貧乏長屋で浪人の首吊りが発生、役人が調べに来る。長屋の住人である髪結いの新三は、長屋の連中で浪人の為にお通夜をしてやろうと言い、大家を説き伏せて酒をせしめる。お通夜が行われるが、長屋の連中は酒がただで飲めると喜び陽気な馬鹿騒ぎを行う。山中貞雄監督の遺作。

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

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...