Movies: Yōyō Kojima

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....

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a cana...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan....

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo....

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case....

Jidaigeki from 1940...

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A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino....

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them....

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a fi...

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 ...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

Story of a bandit king part 2....

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura...

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When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's h...

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period....

Story of a bandit king....