Tale of a Boy: Noble Heart

8.0

This is another Tomu Uchida film (fragmentary?) from 1925 called “Shonen Bidan Kiyoki Kokoro” which means it is a moral fable which translates as something like ‘A shining example of a boy’s good morals’.…

The Daughter of the Samurai

The story revolves around Kiyo, a young Japanese woman who is engaged to marry Teruo. Teruo returns to Japan after studying abroad in Europe, accompanied by a German journalist named Margot. Kiyo struggles to adjust…

Kochiyama Soshun

6.8

The story follows two men who reside in a tavern. Living day to day, the sweet sake shop owner's daughter, Onami, becomes their solace. One day, when Sozun and Ichinojo learn that Onami is being sold off due to her…

Lessons in Essay

7.0

Masako, a sixth-grade elementary student, lives a modest life with her parents and siblings. She excels in writing and is always praised by her teacher. One day, her essay is published in the magazine "Red Bird". Masako…

Children in the Wind

6.0

Zenkichi, a fifth grader, and Sanpei, a first grader, enjoy a lively summer vacation amidst the natural surroundings of the countryside. However, one day, their father is taken away by the police under suspicion of…

Koi Roka

8.0

While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a young student, Murakoshi Kinya. Determined to see him succeed, she endures years of financial hardship and…

Honjitsu Kyushin

6.0

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day, a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical…

Rangiku Monogatari

2.0

End of Muromachi period. The Seto Inland Sea promised to leave herself to a mosquito store hanging sixteen tatami mats into a golden small box that is two-tenths of a square on the Daimyo Akamatsu Kazusa, a relentlessly…

The Forbidden Castle

Behind the victory of the Tokugawa side in the Battle of Sekigahara was the betrayal of Morimasa Ino, the lord of Nissaka, against the Osaka side. For Morimasa's son Umanosuke, his father's act of betrayal was a horrible…

The Counterfeiters

Ryohei Ashizawa, the young president of the Sanbun industry newspaper "Economic Weekly," has an odd obsession with counterfeit money. He goes to visit a person who had been arrested on suspicion of counterfeit dollars…