Kokuten Kōdō Movies

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Japanese horror movie from 1932.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his...

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at...

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Hanjiro of Kusama searches for his little sister Oyuki, who went missing after being desecrated by Hikosaku Tokurai three years ago. The first film...

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.