Movies

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main...

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

On his way back to Japan after two years in the desert, oil company engineer Sakamoto visits his friend Katori in Hong Kong. Soon after, Sakamoto...

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...

Pacific war documentary culled from approximately 40,000 feet of Nippon Eiga Shinsha wartime stock, as well from British and American sources. Film...

A Japanese film from 1963, Directed by Shirô Toyoda.

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside...

This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We...