Saburō Isayama

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

いわゆる「国策映画」のひとつではあるが、ドキュメンタリータッチで制作された本作は、派手な戦闘場面もなく、部隊がひたすら移動する様を淡々と描いている。現在見ることができるのは、GHQに接収され後に返還されたものだが、オリジナルに比べ30分近く欠落している。第二分隊長の玉井伍長は十三名の部下とともに、輸送船に乗り込み上陸開始の時を待っていた。部下たちは緊張のあまり、上陸開始まで眠ることができずにいた。やがて輸送船が上陸、兵士たちは船を下りた。しかしその瞬間、敵の一掃射撃を受けてしまう。

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)

皆川麗子は心にもない無理強いの結婚を避け、岡山の家を出た。東京に着いた麗子は、東京の大学で勉学中のただ一人の心の人、磯村晃に電話をする。磯村は喜びと驚きの声で10分もすればそちらに行けると答えた。しかし改札口が二つあることを知らなかった二人は、それぞれ別の改札口で数時間も待ち続け、ついに会うことができなかった……。

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.