Musei Tokugawa Movies

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

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

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

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

1958 Japanese movie

Set in a bustling 1950s parlor, a beautiful counter clerk falls for a wealthy businessman’s son, only to have their romance derailed by a...

Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.

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

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

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

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

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...

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...

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...