Makoto Kobori

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese film.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

The Man Who Has Returned

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.

Tales of a Drifter

Girls in the Orchard

Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood

Fighting Fire Fighter

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

新遊侠伝

新遊侠伝　遊侠往来

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Japanese noir.

1954 Japanese movie

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree