Musei Tokugawa Movies

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

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

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

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

The story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

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...

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

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

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...

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

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword...