Akihiko Katayama

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.

Horror film directed by Koji Shima.

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spite of her beauty. One night, while Anchin is recuperating in a hot spring, he is approached by Kiyo. She tells him that she is in love with him.

Japanese drama

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.

Japanese film.

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to push through his business idea – the foundation of an airline. At the same time, his ex-girlfriend refuses to accept their separation and attempts to force her way back into his life by any means possible. He in turn feels attracted to a young woman, who turns out to be the wife of one of his airline investors and who has herself had a secret lover for several years.

An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.

Japanese musical.

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

료스케는 "뽀빠이" 타입의 아버지로 전쟁 때 폭격으로 불타버렸던 가게를 재건하고자 밤낮으로 열심히 일한다. 그의 아내인 마사코와 두 딸인 도시코와 히사코 또한 가족을 위해서 끝없이 희생하며 최선을 다해 돕는다. 도시코는 피카소에 영감을 받아 빵을 굽는 근대적인 사고를 사진 빵집의 신지로와 사랑하는 사이다. 어느 날 아버지는 병으로 눕게 되고 그의 형제인 기무라가 찾아온다. 그는 아버지에게 무슨 일이 일어나면 자신이 일을 돕겠다고 한다. 기무라는 모든 사람들과 잘 지내지만, 도시코는 사람들이 엄마와 기무라 간의 염문에 대해 수군거리는 소리를 듣게 된다. 이기심이 발동한 도시코는 기무라가 떠나야 한다고 주장하고 결국 기무라는 그렇게 하는데... (서울시네마떼끄 나루세 미키오 회고전)

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member. Told mostly in flashback as the avengers await the arrival of their quarry, this film displays true heroism in the face of fear as most of the combatants, while of the samurai class are not skilled swordsmen. They contrast sharply with the true warriors involved in this battle. Araki Mataemon (Mifune), who was not only a direct student of Yagyu Munenori, but the founder of his own sword style under the Yagyu name is a powerful force ready to assist his brother-in-law against the murderer's allies that include not only another noted sword teacher, but the deadly spear of Katsumi no Hanbei.

Japanese drama film.

대를 잇고자 아버지는 무남독녀 미치코를 보잘것없는 배경의 대학교수 타다오와 결혼시키고, 그를 데릴사위로 들인다. 전쟁에 휩쓸려 시간은 흐르고, 미치코는 선친의 유지를 받들며 가문을 지키려 한다. 그런데 이미 아내와도 소원해진 타다오는 학생들과도 거침없이 육체관계를 맺고, 아내의 친척 토미코와도 정분이 난다. 한편, 미치코의 사촌 츠토무가 귀향하는데, 미치코는 츠토무를 향한 감정을 억누르고, 그가 보내는 사랑을 부정한다.

작가와 발레 선생인 아내의 관계는 수년 동안 다른 남자를 사랑해 오다가 결국 가족의 파탄으로 이어진다.

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

"Delinquent Girl" - A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular “bad girl” and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city.

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign to buy airplanes.] The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute, and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event. Tasaka throws in a few songs, some village humor and satire, and tremendous camera mobility, finally wringing every possible effect from his climax." John Gillett, British Film Institute

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.

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.