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…

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.…

Flame of My Love

7.7

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…

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.

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…

It's All Because of a Katoey

A beautiful woman picks up her fiancé at a gentleman's club where the members play pool. She is so attractive that other men begin to compete for her attention. One, a lieutenant who she won't give the time of day,…

The Youth

6.1

In the latter years of the Korean Empire, An Jae Yeong who had lost his parents to a government official, Min Gyeom Ho, marries Lee In Hwa, who is in male attire. They fight together with young national activists presided…

The Rice People

2.0

The heroes and heroines of the piece are all rice farmers, struggling to eke out an existence in an unfriendly world. The main plotlines concern a pair of benighted lovers and an elderly mother who falls victim to…