Yo Shiomi Movies

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Japanese film.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Japanese drama film.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

Jidaigeki from 1940

Part two of two.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

A 1942 film.