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The Story of One Century
Japanese Special - 2000, 3 episodes7.4
The Story of One Century tells the stories of three women, living in three different Japanese eras: Taisho (1912-1926), Showa (1926-1989) and Heisei (1989-2019). The first generation takes place in the 1920s at the time…
Zigeunerweisen
Japanese Movie - 19807.4
First film from the trilogy by Suzuki Seijun. Films are showing the struggle between tradition and modern in Taisho era.
Haikara-san ga Toru
Japanese Movie - 19877.1
Hanamura Benio, a transgressive girl, was sent to the house of Count Ijuin as an apprentice in the spring of Taisho's 7th year. There, she met a young man in a military uniform, Lieutenant Ijuin Shinobu, through her…
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Japanese Movie - 20186.7
The story takes place in the outskirts of Tokyo in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake. Overflowing with orphans and refugees from the disaster, the district gets a visit from the female sumo group Tamaiwa Entertainment.…
Kazeyo Arashi yo Gekijo Ban
Japanese Movie - 2024
~~ Adapted from the novel "Kazeyo, Arashi yo" (風よ あらしよ) by Murayama Yuka (村山由佳).
Songs of Kamui
Japanese Movie - 2023
More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido…
Tenkirimatsu Dark Story
Japanese Special - 2004, 1 episodes2.0
The legendary thief Tenkirimatsu survived turbulent times over the three eras of Taisho, Showa, and Heisei. ~~Adapted from the novel by Asada Jiro (浅田次郎).
Misuzu
Japanese Movie - 20014.0
Tells the life story of Kaneko Teru, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a bookshop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage.…
The Glass Cape
Japanese Movie - 19896.0
This beautiful tale is set in a small mountain village in the early 1920s. Fatherless Karin, who lives alone with her ailing mother, meets and befriends Takada Saburo, nicknamed "Mata Saburo of Wind". She and her classmates…
Hana no Arashi
Japanese Drama - 1988, 70 episodes
~Based on Shukei Nagasaka work. There was a boy who lost his mother. His name is Kazuya Tendo. At the funeral, Kazuya was told by people in the neighborhood, that his mother had been tossed by Baron Asakura and Tendo…
Otei-chan
Japanese Drama - 1978, 156 episodes6.5
The 21st NHK Asadora. Starring Chikako Yuri in a dramatization of the life of Sadako Sawamura.
Arashi no Hatashiji
Japanese Movie - 1968
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts…
Friendly Enemies
Japanese Movie - 19671.0
Set in the Tomikawara in the late Taisho era, this film tells the story of a young man who confronted a new power emerging in his town, in order to save a powerful local yakuza. The 1st film of a duo series dealing with…
Birth of a Fighter
Japanese Movie - 19674.0
A young boss proves his right to rule his yakuza gang and dares to challenge an abusive family that afflicts innocent people.
The Flower and the Angry Waves
Japanese Movie - 19648.0
A violent exploration of modernity and corruption and the collapse of codes of honor in the face of commerce, through the eyes of a migrant who hopes to start afresh, spiced with his melodramatic love story with a geisha.
Tokyo Koshinkyoku
Japanese Movie - 1929
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provide a valuable visual experience set against the…
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