Yōnosuke Toba Movies

A Japanese silent film

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

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...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

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

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

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...

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

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief