Shin'yō Nara Movies

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

Weed with Flowers

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).