Kumeko Otowa Movies

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreaks. After an unexpected pregnancy, she has an...

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

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

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

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

1940 Japanese movie

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

1950s Japanese comedy.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

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