Musei Tokugawa Movies

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...

Japanese comedy film.

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

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

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

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

film directed by Tai Katô

1944 war movie

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

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...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

1945 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda short film.

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

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

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 called...

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...