Kinji Fujiwa Movies

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a typist. She determines that she needs money for her...

Part two of two.

Original work by Hyakken Uchida.

Part one of two.

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...

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...

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...