Yumeko Aizome

A Trap (1965)

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shatte ...

Miniature (1953)

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate. ...

The Official And The Princess of Thieves (1951)

Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume (1949)

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy. ...

Yaji Kita Cat Ghost Road (1949)

Film about Ghost-cat. ...

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood (1949)

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

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob. ...

Gate of Flesh (1948)

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden. ...

Great X (1948)

A 1948 Japanese film. ...

The Ball at the Anjo House (1947)

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving. ...

A Face Glowing at Night (1946)

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole to the government. The next day, the jewel disappears. Investigator Yamazaki investigates... ...

Goju no to (1944)

Based on Kōda Rohan's novella The Five-Storied Pagoda. ...

Kokusai Mitsuyudan (1944)

Directed by Daisuke Ito. ...

Children of the Sun (1938)

At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako's past includes being sold into servitude and an unrecognised pregnancy. Seiu learns the truth and accepts Masako and the unborn child, embracing his roles as husband and f ...

Crybaby Apprentice (1938)

A fatherless boy's mother passes him from one aunt to another. ...

Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937)

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by close friend Michiko and her mother but also, surprisingly, Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even ...

Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro's father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. The two lovers flee to Tokyo, but when Shintaro returns to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father ...

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934)

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly intereste ...

A Mother Should Be Loved (1934)

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling. ...

Sôbô (1933)

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost. ...

The Boss's Son at College (1933)

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young wome ...

Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)

Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that ...

Dragnet Girl (1933)

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him. ...

The Bride Talks in Her Sleep (1933)

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and fe ...

Moth-eaten Spring (1932)

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost. ...