Three 'Black Crow' Wives

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

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.

Modern comedy.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.

1962 Japanese movie

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).