Musei Tokugawa Movies

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

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...

1958 Japanese movie

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

1945 Japanese movie

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...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Costume comedy

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

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

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword...