Musei Tokugawa Movies

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

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

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

Dr Sogawa is considering making his son, Taro, take over the family business, but Taro is completely absorbed in music. Nevertheless, he makes him...