Toho Movies

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Picking up several years after the dissolution of the original Borgman team, this volume reunites the three remaining members--rocket scientist Ryo, h...

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori),who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant a...

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju...

The three brothers of the Kodai family possess telepathy, and this has led to many nerve-wracking incidents. Their aunt Anne narrates an episode from...

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

1962 Japanese movie

A short anime directed by Tetsuro Araki in collaboration with music by Hiroyuki Sawano and Motohiro Hata. A part of the "TOHO animation: Music Films"...

Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day. Meanwhile...

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

1962 Japanese movie

In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return with...

Crime film released in 1969

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号),comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the...