Yasujirō Shimazu

In 1936, Shochiku’s studios moved from Kamata to Ofuna. That year Shimazu Yasujiro, one of the more acclaimed directors under contract at ...

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko s a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more ...

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, film buffs have been told that until Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, Japanese cinema was a forbidden kingdom, bearing little relationship ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...