Shochiku Movies

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When th...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕),which means “waiter” literally....

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the o...

Pinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of temptation.

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and H...

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for sp...

Midori (Misora),the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura),a ship carpenter in a port town, was born a good singer. Her mother is dead, her father...

From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life...

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to...

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth an...

The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.

Time Traveling Samurai

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relations...