Movies

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the...

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

1962 Japanese movie

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to...

1947 Japanese movie

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

Japanese drama film.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.