Musei Tokugawa

Flirtation in Spring

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Children Hand in Hand

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

Otogi's Voyage Around the World

Also Known As: Otogi's Voyage Around the World

Monpe-san

The story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

The Legend of the White Serpent

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

The Imitation Lords

Costume comedy

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Odoriko monogatari

Ise-Shima

A documentary short highlighting the cultural attractions of Ise-Shima National Park in eastern Mie Prefecture, a popular coastal sightseeing destination and home to the Ise Grand Shrine.

春よいづこ

The Sea Monster on Land

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

The Dead Beauty Incident

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…

Kobayashi Issa

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 Nagano. Commissioned by the Nagano Prefectural Department of Tourism, the movie became instead, in the hands of Kamei, a depiction, sometimes ironic, of poverty and the harsh life of the inhabitants of the area. The short movie is often considered Japan’s first “poetic documentary”.

Diary of a Nurse

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Ghosts Die at Dawn

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice, Kohei takes Michiko to stay at a dilapidated mountain villa in his hometown. What awaited him there...

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.

The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday

12 Chapters About Women

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of his promotion, but just then, a big change occurs in Minako's body..

Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

The Town

Tipsy Life

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star

film directed by Tai Katô

Saiyûki

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

Composition Class

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's further education.