Hisako Yamane Movies

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

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...

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Japanese war movie

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

A 1942 film.

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...