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Documentary of an Imperial Japanese Army regiment's advance from Shanghai to Wuhan in 1938. This film was shelved before submission to Home Ministry...
Fighting Soldiers
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...
Young Teacher
Documentary about the Japanese-occupied city that, as described by one contemporary source " boasts international settlements in which the nationals...
Shanghai
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...
Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...
Wedding Day
Dr Sogawa is considering making his son, Taro, take over the family business, but Taro is completely absorbed in music. Nevertheless, he makes him...
Haru yo izuko
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
Sky of Hope
Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...
Learn from Experience, Part Two
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...
Iemitsu and Hikoza
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Travelling Actors
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...
Chocolate and Soldiers
A 1943 film.
音楽大進軍
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Mother Never Dies
Enoken's Surprising Life
A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama to New York, where the former runs in the New...
Return of the Champ
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...
Old Songs
Kodakara fūfu
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
China Night
The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...
Kobayashi Issa