Hisako Yamane Movies

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Japanese war movie

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

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...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

1944 war movie

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

A 1942 film.