The Living Koheiji

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

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

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he is visiting to arrange an engagement for his friend who has been drafted to fight in the war.

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

Modern comedy.

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and eventually heads for Nikko, a travel destination. Sazae is once again overwhelmed by the sight of the newlyweds bustling with sunlight, but...

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.

1962 Japanese movie