Kansho Yoshii Movies

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.

A state-sponsored film centered on Shinsaku Takasugi’s theories on coastal defense.

1950 daiei movie.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was...

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

Reiko Minagawa leaves her home in Okayama to avoid an arranged marriage she doesn't want. Upon arriving in Tokyo, she calls Akira Isomura, a college...

1945 Japanese movie

Family of Love

1945 Japanese movie

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

A young princess is kidnapped and put on a pirate ship bound for Hokkaido and the villainous Jaguar. Her only hope is the cook and a young man who...

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

A melancholic love story between a young photographer and a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage for the sake of her poor father-in-law.