Makoto Kobori

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

The Man Who Has Returned

Theater

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Tomorrow's Happiness

Rinchi

Japanese noir.

Fujisancho

Fūryū ajiro gasa

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

The Man Who Has Returned

Theater

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Tomorrow's Happiness

Rinchi

Japanese noir.

Fujisancho

Fūryū ajiro gasa

Koi rōka

While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a young student, Murakoshi Kinya. Determined to see him succeed, she endures years of financial hardship and social scorn to secretly fund his legal education in Tokyo.

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

The Great White Tiger Platoon

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.

Guntō nanban-sen

1950 Japanese movie

Marital Relations

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.

Bot-chan

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

新遊侠伝

Kokoro tsuki nogotoku

1947 Japanese movie

Fantasy of Youth

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Yaji Kita Cat Ghost Road

Film about Ghost-cat.

Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood

Girls in the Orchard

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city.

Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie

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