Susumu Fujita

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son. Release: A Mother Never Dies 1942 General: avi | 1.09 GB | ...

A Japanese wartime propaganda drama made nearly a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor to celebrate the victory. Release: Battle of Pearl Harbor ...

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke’s infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate ...

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film ...

Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be ...

Recently I was having a discussion with some friends about how “just because it’s foreign, doesn’t mean it’s good.” ...

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to ...

The story of an airport and its air-traffic control crew in a remote northern-Japanese town. Three of the air-traffic controllers are female; one ...

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to ...

Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple ...

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots them; their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, ...

The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a ...

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for ...

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to ...

The wandering gambler Yataro seeks vengeance against a treacherous yakuza boss. Release: Yataro gasa 1960 General: avi | 1.12 GB | 01:36:11 ...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who ...

A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the ...

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the ...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural ...

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, ...