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The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...
Sanshiro Sugata
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...
Currents of Youth
Subterranean Heat
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Wings of Victory
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 in...
Song of the White Orchid
Documentary of an Imperial Japanese Army regiment's advance from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1938. This film was shelved before submission to Home Ministry...
Fighting Soldiers
A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...
A Fond Face from the Past
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Travelling Actors
Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
Japanese movie
Itahachi shima
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...
The Whole Family Works
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...
Hot Wind
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Onna keizu
A 1943 film.
音楽大進軍
A 1942 film.
Omokage no machi
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
China Night