Night in the City

This is the story of a poor family living in China's slums. The daughter is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, the daughter is forced…

Tunay na Ina

Magdalena becomes pregnant because she was raped by Antonio. Before his death, her father gives up the baby for adoption, thinking that no man can ever understand her past. Magdalena is engaged to Roberto , a decent,…

Nightmare of Fortune

Tofu vendor Tsang Tsoi dreams of making it rich through the lottery. But his many attempts to persuade his wife to give him money to buy lottery tickets fail. Later, Tsang dreams that he has indeed struck the lottery.…

Seishun no Kiryu

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 latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive.…

Uma

Onoda Ine, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles…

Sayon's Bell

The bell of mourning rings in memory of the beautiful maiden who was fleetingly lost. A film co-produced by the Taiwan Governor-General's Office, the Manchurian Film Association, and Shochiku. When Taiwan (Republic…

Byeong jeongnim

The parents of the young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese army during the second world war are proud to send their children off to battle in this propaganda film ordered by the Japanese government.

Flame of My Love

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A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being…

Shanghai Rose

In the dying days of the Pacific War, a Shanghai songstress and a Japanese intelligence operative find their paths crossed when people close to her are involved in a secret attempt to open peace talk with Chiang Kai-shek's…

Shinjitsu Ichiro

It depicts the emotional conflict of Mutsuko, who married another man for the sake of the world while she was pregnant with her deceased lover's child. A a woman who couldn't give up being a woman, even when she became…