Rikie Sanjō Movies

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

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Cast: Kogiku Hanayagi

Japanese war-era film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsuruko Baba

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuhiko Haida

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

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Cast: Takako Irie

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai