Yōnosuke Toba Movies

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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...

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Japanese movie

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...

1949 Japanese movie

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...