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

1954 Japanese movie

A young princess is kidnapped and put on a pirate ship bound for Hokkaido and the villainous Jaguar. Her only hope is the cook and a young man who...

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to...

First in the Nage Utasamon series

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Moju Tsukai no Shojo is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film

There are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for...

A young swordsman takes on the mysterious, deadly “Demon Sword” wielded by a nihilistic master swordsman who trusts neither human...

Japanese drama from 1954

A poignant and deeply moving story of the officers and men of the Saipan “Total Annihilation” Unit, who, longing for their loved ones...

A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.

On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in...

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

In 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged...

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.

A girl from a tenement house was abducted in broad daylight, right in the heart of Edo.

A young judoka investigates the mysterious death of his best friend.

A rakugo storyteller who makes people laugh falls in love with his master’s daughter.

An innocent bus girl who gave up on getting into a women’s college and is now filled with new hope and the cheerful, slightly flirtatious young...

A passionate young man who risks his life for love and judo and the innocent young woman who adores him face off against an evil judoka at...

Keita, who had been taken along as a cover for his father-in-law’s affair, was discovered by his new wife when she unexpectedly showed up while...

So the million-yen lottery ticket I finally won turned out to be invalid, but what about the Boston bag full of a million yen that I found in the...