Musei Tokugawa Movies

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

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

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

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

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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

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

1944 war movie

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 documentary short highlighting the cultural attractions of Ise-Shima National Park in eastern Mie Prefecture, a popular coastal sightseeing...

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

1961 Japanese movie

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...

film directed by Tai Katô