Yumeko Aizome Movies

Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry...

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

1945 Japanese movie

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Venice Film Festival 1939

A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another.