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The Girl in the Rumor

7.7

The suitor rejects elder sister Kunie but likes Kimoko, the younger one. Their father and his mistress have separate shops. Kimiko suddenly learns that she is her mother. Business is bad. The police visit when business…

Humanity and Paper Balloons

7.5

In the film, Shinzo, a hairdresser living in a poor tenement, attracts the attention of the yakuza after opening a gambling den on his own. Struggling for money, Shinzo tries to pawn his hairdressing tools but is rejected…

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

7.3

Abandoned by her selfish father, a resourceful Tokyo lass forges ahead with her wedding plans, even though she will be forbidden to wed unless her dad arranges the details with her in-laws. Swallowing her pride, the…

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

7.2

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. (Source: MUBI)

The Road I Travel with You

7.3

The otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives because of society’s disapproval of their illegitimacy and déclassé family.

The Actress and the Poet

6.7

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple…

Hokushi no Sora wo Tsuku

Karayuki-san

Shinzo ga Tsuyoi

Entatsu Achako, specially featured in the "Hatari Shimbun," sets out on an expedition to the women-only paradise "Beauty Island" in the Pacific Ocean.

Hikoroku Ooi Warafu

Zoku Enoken no Senban Choja

The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken’s young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job—in drag and sometimes blackface—to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious…

Enoken's Ten Millions

Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song. (Letterboxd)

Man of the House

6.5

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife ,who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha , and the deterioration of his partnership…

Enoken no Kondo Isami

Botchan

~~ Adapted from the novel "Botchan" by Natsume Soseki.

Enoken no Seishun Suikoden

Junjo no Miyako

Ongaku Kigeki: Horoyohi Jinsei

The Journey is a Blue Sky