Musei Tokugawa Movies

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

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

Costume comedy

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

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...

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

A documentary short highlighting the cultural attractions of Ise-Shima National Park in eastern Mie Prefecture, a popular coastal sightseeing...

1944 war movie

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...

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

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...