Toho Eiga Movies

Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

1940 Japanese movie

This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a typist. She determines that she needs money for her...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him,...

Ravana, while dancing with animals, kidnaps Sita from Rama, and returns to Lanka to hide as Lankapura burns.

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is...