Shochiku Movies

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with...

A bunch of happy students enjoying themselves at a Christmas party until a sadistic Santa Claus comes and interrupts the festivities. Spruce Green bec...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

Japanese drama film.

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this so...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pr...

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen. Oma...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gamb...

Japanese silent film.

Japanese comedy film.

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals),lives for over five years in a love affair wit...