Rikie Sanjō Movies

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in hi...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Japanese war-era film

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

1945 Japanese movie

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed...

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

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.