Musei Tokugawa Movies

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōtarō Bandō

1944 war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Roppa Furukawa

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

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

film directed by Tai Katô

Genre: Action

Cast: Yayoko Ôhara

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hong Bai

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Also Known As: Otogi's Voyage Around the World

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hideo Kinoshita

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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

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Cast: Entatsu Yokoyama

Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Orihara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nijiko Kiyokawa

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Toshiko Hatori

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Uruki

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Setsuko Hara

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

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.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norihei Miki

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Akagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

An Ishiro Honda short film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Entatsu Yokoyama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata