Known for
NRJapanese comedy film.
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
1952
6.2Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Four Love Stories
1947
NRNot far from Yurakucho, on the riverbank, stands the Nishida Clinic, with signs advertising internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology. The examination room of the clinic’s director, Dr. Heizo Nishida, is frequented by mysterious women and black-marketeers. Toshio Shimamura, president of “Seiso Shinpo”, takes notice of this. Ayako Toda, who lost her parents during repatriation and was taken in by Shimamura is ordered to extort 50,000 yen from Nishida, but in the process meets his son Ippei.
As If To Kill
1948
NRBaseball comedy.
Hōmurankyō jidai
1949
A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Little Stranger
1960
Behind the camera
NRJapanese comedy film.
Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
1952
6.2Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Four Love Stories
1947
6.2Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Four Love Stories
1947
NRNot far from Yurakucho, on the riverbank, stands the Nishida Clinic, with signs advertising internal medicine, surgery, and gynecology. The examination room of the clinic’s director, Dr. Heizo Nishida, is frequented by mysterious women and black-marketeers. Toshio Shimamura, president of “Seiso Shinpo”, takes notice of this. Ayako Toda, who lost her parents during repatriation and was taken in by Shimamura is ordered to extort 50,000 yen from Nishida, but in the process meets his son Ippei.
As If To Kill
1948
NRBaseball comedy.
Hōmurankyō jidai
1949
A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
Tsuma mo koisu
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Little Stranger
1960
This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and women of all ages.
Wife of a Lily
1940
8.0What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Sky of Hope
1942
NRThe movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husband, a captain, died in a shipwreck at sea, her daughter Mariko (Kyoko Kagawa), and her son Michio (Oohinata's son), who has a leg disability and is undergoing rehabilitation. ) We were a family of three. Through the interaction between the Tokuyama family and the Fujieda family, the importance of family and the kindness of people are reflected on the screen.
Mado Kara Tobidase
1950
7.0A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the Pacific War. The film has scenes featuring Ki-43 fighters escorting Ki-21 bombers to attack Rangoon, where they are attacked by P-40 Warhawk and Brewster Buffalo fighters.
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
1944
7.0A 1943 film.
音楽大進軍
1943
9.0Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Hideko the Cheerleader
1940
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Doyō fujin
1948
7.0Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
1942
9.0Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy under the wartime, was made into a film from comic serials by SUGIURA Yukio published in a magazine.
Miss Hanako
1943
NRA film by Tomotaka Tasaka.
Yukiwarisō
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's Paradise When One Sings
1941
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kōruisō
1951
Adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya's story.
Family Diary Part I
1938
NRYasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.
Fighting Yasubei
1952
NRThe 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 in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.
Mother of the Red Hands
1941
Adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s story.
Family Diary Part II
1938
NRThe Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relatives expecting big inheritance. But he is not giving any favor to anyone. His only joy of life is to go on junk hunt in the neighborhood, collecting garbages and scraps and selling them to junkmen to make profit.
The Old Man of the Propeller
1939
NRDirector Watanabe Kunio The first talkie film by Tamagawa Studio Starring Sugi Kyoji as Hosoi Ichikawa Haruyo as Kinuko Hoshi Reiko as Mitsuko Matsumoto Shutaro as boy of liquor shop Uemura Setsuko as landlord widow Kitahara Natsue as hysteric wife Oosaki Kenji as her husband Matsudaira Akira as singer at next door Hanano Kuniko as maid Kawagoe Ippei and Bando Mieshi as old couple Kanbe Hikaru as thief
Diary of a Bride
1934
