Movies

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

A 1937 Japanese film.

1961 Japanese movie

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the...

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

A ronin sets out on a journey with his horse, with no particular destination in mind. Re-released in 1953.

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

Silent jidaigeki released on New Year's Eve, 1926.

Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.