Yōtarō Katsumi

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

Red Peony of Night

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em…

Sanshiro of Ginza

An early film by Kon Ichikawa…

The Girl I Loved

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to revea…

Jubilation Street

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand…

The Poppy

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.…

Hideko the Bus Conductress

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J…

Spring on Leper's Island

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.…

Nightingale

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