Musei Tokugawa Movies

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

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...

At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

1945 Japanese movie

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

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,...

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

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 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...

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

1961 Japanese movie

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...

1944 war movie

A short documentary filmed by staff at the Ueno Zoo that documents the behavior of wild animals in the remote regions of Africa.

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.