Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

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

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Story of love, friendship, and college sports.

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.

Modern comedy.

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.

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).