Yûji Koseki

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

As shobijin (termo japonês para "belas pequeninas", também são conheçidas como fadas gêmeas) são raptadas de sua ilha por um inescrupuloso bandido, que vê nelas suas chances de enriquecer. Enquanto isso surge à larva de MOTHRA que segue para o Japão para tentar resgatar as duas Subujins. Na procura pelas pequeninas Mothra devasta o Japão, causando destruição e pânico. Primeira aparição da mariposa gigante "Mothra", que algum tempo depois, teve participações (De grande importância) em varios outros filmes, especialmente os de Godzilla.

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.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Japanese drama film.

O drama de Machiko e Haruki continua. Machiko não tem permissão para ver Haruki. Eles finalmente se encontram novamente, mas Haruki parte para a Europa.

O drama de Machiko e Haruki continua. Dois se encontram novamente em Hokkaido, apenas para serem separados novamente.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

Machiko Ujiie e Haruki Atomiya se conheceram e apaixonam-se na ponte Sukiyabashi em Ginza durante o Grande Raid Aéreo de Tóquio em março de 1945. Machiko e Haruki prometem reencontrarem-se novamente na ponte dentro de seis meses, mas separam-se sem perguntar o nome um do outro.

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

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.

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.

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.

Japanese comedy film.

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.

Documentary of an Imperial Japanese Army regiment's advance from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1938. This film was shelved before submission to Home Ministry censors amid rumors that Fumio was a Communist.