Hisako Yamane Movies

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...

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

A 1942 film.

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

1945 Japanese movie

1951 Japanese movie

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

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

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

1944 war movie

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

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...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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