The Dragon Of Macao

2.0

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan…

Song of Home

Mizoguchi’s 30th film is the earliest surviving example of his work, and his only film of the 1920s to survive complete. Song of Home finds the director already concerning himself with the collision of traditional…

Something Like It

8.0

In a film about Rakugo, which is a traditional Japanese sit-down comedy, a man living in Tokyo is a young comic practitioner starting out. On his birthday he visits a Soapland (sexually themed bath house) for the first…

Letters from Nirai Kanai

7.5

Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives…

The Day's Organ

7.6

Set towards the end of World War II, Itakura Kaede, who leads kindergartners, and Nonomiya Mitsue, who enjoys music, persuade the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned…

The Solitary Gourmet

7.6

Inokashira Goro, a trader of imported goods, enjoys dining at restaurants. The story opens with a quick jaunt to Paris, where an elderly Japanese expat, Ichiro, entrusts Goro with a mission to find the ingredients…

Gajimaru Restaurant's Love

7.7

Set in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, movie follows the love of four men and women. Mizuho runs a restaurant alone which her grandmother started. Hayato is a mysterious man who begins to appear at Mizuho’s restaurant.…

Medical Team Lady da Vinci's Diagnosis

7.6

Shiho works as a neurosurgeon at Nishitokyo General Hospital. She decides to quit her profession after hallucinating during surgery. Her ex-teacher Masayuki Kitabatake is the director at Tokyo University Hospital and…

Restart after Come back Home

7.9

Mitsuomi Kozuka quits his job in Tokyo and decides to return to his hometown in the country for the first time in 10 years. His relationship with his Father was strained after he moved to Tokyo and didn't want to take…

Signal

7.2

A young woman named Ruka hasn't been able to leave a theater where she has worked as a projectionist for the last 3 years. Keisuke is a university student in Tokyo. During his summer break he begins to work at the…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Hojo Hideji

Proceed to the preparatory course of Osaka Municipal Kosei Commercial School (currently Osaka Municipal Tennoji Commercial High School ). He joined Nippon Electric Power in 1920 without advancing to the main course of the school . While working at the company, graduated from Kansai University's Department…

Sawamura Haruko

Sawamura Haruko was a Japanese actress born on Rebun Island, Rebun District, Hokkaido. In March 1920 she moved to Tokyo and when she turned 19 years old, she entered the Shochiku Kinema Actor School in Tsukiji. Sawamura made her debut as a movie actress in 1921 by appearing in "Rojo no Reikon" produced…

Watanabe Takeo

Composer, Musician, Poet. Born in Tokyo . His nickname was " Nabetake ". Born as the eldest son of the composer Urato Watanabe. He composes various genres, and has left impressive songs especially in historical drama and animated works. He used many instruments such as the harpsichord , which had never…

Kobayashi Tsuneo

Graduated from Nihon University Art Department in 1934 . Selected and performed in the Takarazuka Revue review script open call for participants. In 1935, he joined the production department of the Tokyo Vocal Film Factory of the same Toho affiliate and studied under Shiro Toyoda , triggered by the…

Ochiai Naobumi

A Japanese poet and literary scholar. Ochiai Naobumi was adopted by the Ochiai family in 1878 while he was studying at their Shinto school. In 1881 he went to Tokyo and continued his education there at the University of Tokyo , where he also taught at times. As a lyricist, he strove to fill the traditional…

Hagiwara Akira

Hagiwara Akira is a Japanese film director and screenwriter born in Nishi-ku, Osaka. Film director Hagiwara Ryo is his older brother. After graduating from the former Dalian Municipal Business School built by Japan in Dalian, a city at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, he entered Kyoto with his brother.…

Fujiyama Ichiro

Fujiyama Ichiro was a Japanese singer, vocalist, composer, and conductor born in Nihonbashi-ku, Tokyo, He graduated from Tokyo Music School. He was active as a tenor national singer and popular singer with the orthodox vocal technique, singing method, anf music theory cultivated at Tokyo Music School,…

Boya Saburo

Boya Saburo was a Japanese comedian and actor from Yubari, Hokkaido. After going through private Hokkai Junior High School, he went on to the Faculty of Religion at Nihon University, but transferred to the night art department to study vocal music. His name at birth was Ishikawa Hiroshi, but he was…

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro

Ishimatsu Yoshihiro is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. He has been a member of Toho's scenario study group since he was in college. After graduating,…