Kamatari Fujiwara Movies

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuyoshi Ehara

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Story of young love in the hills.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yū Fujiki

Directed by Daisuke Ito.

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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 tribe...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heihachirô Ôkawa

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

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Cast: Chiemi Eri

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

An early Tōhō salaryman musical.

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Dan

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heihachirô Ôkawa

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomoemon Otani

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Uruki

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

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Cast: Hajime Izu

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his...

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Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

1948 Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akemi Negishi

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûzô Kayama

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

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Cast: Hibari Misora

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

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Cast: Shiho Fujimura

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiemi Eri

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Period romantic drama.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

A musical romance.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...

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Cast: Akira Kishii

Studio P.C.L. was specifically founded to make sound films, and this early musical balances the aesthetics of the sound film with those of the stage...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiemi Eri

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warren Beatty

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniko Igawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fubuki Koshiji

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Venice Film Festival 1939

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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Cast: Setsuko Wakayama

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiemi Eri

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ôki

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1951 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yûzô Kayama

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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 failed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuhide Haruta

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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 Police...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Maki

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikako Hosokawa

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

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Cast: Chieko Baisho

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Pinku from 1971.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

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Cast: Yûzô Kayama

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune