5.8
Men vs. Women
IMDb: 5.8 1936 132 min
In 1936, Shochiku’s studios moved from Kamata to Ofuna. That year Shimazu Yasujiro, one of the more acclaimed directors under contract at ...
7.8
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
IMDb: 7.8 1947 72 min
An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid ...
6.5
My Elder Brother
IMDb: 6.5 1934 69 min
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with ...
5.7
Vermilion and Green
IMDb: 5.7 1937 131 min
Ken Uehara works for a cloth manufacturer, and he has three women in love with him: his boss’s daughter, a lady publisher, and a servant at ...
6.3
Mother and Child
IMDb: 6.3 1938 89 min
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease ...
6.2
First Steps Ashore
IMDb: 6.2 1932 88 min
For decades, film buffs have been told that until Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, Japanese cinema was a forbidden kingdom, bearing little relationship ...
7
Okayo’s Preparedness
IMDb: 7 1939 56 min
Kinuyo Tanaka is a student and lieutenant at Kuniko Miyake’s dance studio. He job calls for her to demonstrate dances, play the koto while ...
7.4
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
IMDb: 7.4 1941 98 min
Yaeko Mizutani has been a performer on the road …. well, forever. Her feet are blistered, the troupe is broke, their only venue is the ...
7.3
Four Seasons of Children
IMDb: 7.3 1939 141 min
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with ...
6.9
Okoto and Sasuke
IMDb: 6.9 1935 100 min
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by ...
7.4
The Munekata Sisters
IMDb: 7.4 1950 112 min
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them ...
7.1
Tokyo Sweetheart
IMDb: 7.1 1952 97 min
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine ...
5.9
Kinuyo’s First Love
IMDb: 5.9 1940 82 min
Reikichi Kawamura is an executive at his father’s security firm; he knows he has responsibilities, but he’s not terribly enamored of ...
7.9
Stray Dog
IMDb: 7.9 1949 122 min
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes ...
6.6
365 Nights
IMDb: 6.6 1948 151 min
Japanese drama film. Release: 365 Nights 1948 JAPANESE WEBRip x264-VXT General: mp4 | 1.13 GB | 01:58:44 Video: 1100 Kbps | 534×400 (4:3) | ...
5.0
Lumberjack and Lady
IMDb: 5.0 1935 72 min
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for ...
7.3
A Brother and His Younger Sister
IMDb: 7.3 1939 101 min
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 ...
6.1
The Living Magoroku
IMDb: 6.1 1943 88 min
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son’s illness. ...
7.2
Children in the Wind
IMDb: 7.2 1937 88 min
On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...
7.1
Apart from You
IMDb: 7.1 1933 61 min
For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In ...