Yasuki Chiba

In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a father.

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Love story of a Japanese man (Takarada) and a Chinese medical student (Yu Ming).

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.

加東大介と小林桂樹が弥次喜多コンビをユーモラスに演じた喜劇。作品のネタに困った十返舎一九は、栃面屋弥次郎兵衛と喜多利屋喜多八に金を与え二人に旅をさせる。だが二人をつけねらう謎の美男子に旅を邪魔され、弥次さん喜多さんは面白くない。実はこの男、偽小判事件にからみ姿を消した十兵衛の行方を追う幕府の隠密で、一緒に出発した十兵衛の娘お雪とはぐれてしまっていた。旅先で数々の失敗を繰り返す弥次喜多コンビだったが、二人の行動が偽小判事件を解決に導くことになり…。

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

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

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Family Blossoms

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

主力選手が出征し、成績が上がらない職業野球団アトラス軍。監督の姪・秀子は野球好きのおてんば娘。秀子は応援歌を作ってスタンドからエールを送る。 そのおかげかアトラス軍は大勝利。しかし、秀子の両親は彼女が球場に行くのには反対だった…。当時のプロ野球のスター選手たちが多数出演した青春映画。

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

1931 film

1931 film

1931 film

1931 film

1930 film

1930 film

1930 film