Shin'yō Nara Movies

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mei Kashiwa

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

Japanese war movie.

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Cast: Mitsuko Mito

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Genre: War

Cast: Toru Hirose

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

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Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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Cast: Eiichi Sugasawara

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Chikako Miyagi

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

1951 Japanese movie

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Cast: Masao Wakahara

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Ishihama

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tokihiko Okada

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

Tetsuji Takechi's third film is based on two short stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mina Yanagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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Cast: Emiko Yagumo

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

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Cast: Kamesaburo Bando

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

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Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Wakahara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Genre: History

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora