Noboru Kiritachi

Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)

In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they ...

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing (1954)

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim. ...

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki (1954)

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle. ...

Merciless Blade (1953)

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass. ...

White-haired Demon (1949)

A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wife and her lover ...

Military Song of the Morning Mist (1943)

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times. ...

Hyoroku's Dream Tale (1943)

Sky of Hope (1942)

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942. ...

The Poppy (1941)

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...

Song of the White Orchid (1939)

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) "Continental Trilogy." Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) ...

The Town (1939)

Enoken's Kurama Tengu (1939)

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's incredible climax, when Enoken fends off dozens of men attacking with ladders and handcarts, brings to mind ...

Enoken’s Shrewd Period (1939)

Enoken's Surprising Life (1938)

Nightingale (1938)

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves. ...

The Beautiful Hawk (1937)

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. ...

Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married. ...

Avalanche (1937)

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife. ...