Shin'yō Nara Filmes

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Japanese film from 1925.

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...