Movies: P C L Eiga Seisaku Jo

  • 1937
    Humanity and Paper Balloons

    Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)

    Humanity and Paper Balloons

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    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....

    Humanity and Paper Balloons
  • 1935
    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

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    Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her f...

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!
  • 1934
    Romantic and Crazy

    Romantic and Crazy (1934)

    Romantic and Crazy

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    Romantic and Crazy
  • 1935
    Drifting

    Drifting (1935)

    Drifting

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    Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel....

    Drifting
  • 1937
    The Kingdom of Spectacles

    The Kingdom of Spectacles (1937)

    The Kingdom of Spectacles

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    Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's wallet. While everyone is trying to hunt down the thief, Hide-chan decides to make the most of it and...

    The Kingdom of Spectacles
  • 1937
    Mother's Melody

    Mother's Melody (1937)

    Mother's Melody

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    Mother's Melody
  • 1936
    The Road I Travel with You

    The Road I Travel with You (1936)

    The Road I Travel with You

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    The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family....

    The Road I Travel with You
  • 1937
    Learn from Experience, Part One

    Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)

    Learn from Experience, Part One

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    Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. U...

    Learn from Experience, Part One
  • 1936
    Man of the House

    Man of the House (1936)

    Man of the House

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    This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha (Sachiko Chiba), and the deterioration of his ...

    Man of the House
  • 1934
    Enoken's The Magician

    Enoken's The Magician (1934)

    Enoken's The Magician

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    Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his grand show!...

    Enoken's The Magician
  • 1936
    I Am a Cat

    I Am a Cat (1936)

    I Am a Cat

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    1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel....

    I Am a Cat
  • 1935
    The Actress and the Poet

    The Actress and the Poet (1935)

    The Actress and the Poet

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    Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open ...

    The Actress and the Poet
  • 1937
    A Woman's Sorrows

    A Woman's Sorrows (1937)

    A Woman's Sorrows

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    Japanese domestic drama....

    A Woman's Sorrows
  • 1936
    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers

    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers (1936)

    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers

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    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers
  • 1933
    Tipsy Life

    Tipsy Life (1933)

    Tipsy Life

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    The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a company founded specifically to take advantage of emergent sound technology. P.C.L. worked in collaboration wi...

    Tipsy Life
  • 1936
    Hikoroku Laughs a lot

    Hikoroku Laughs a lot (1936)

    Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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    Hikoroku Laughs a lot...

    Hikoroku Laughs a lot
  • 1936
    Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1

    Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1 (1936)

    Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1

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    Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song....

    Enoken's The Millionaire, Part 1
  • 1935
    Five Men in a Circus

    Five Men in a Circus (1935)

    Five Men in a Circus

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    The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and sc...

    Five Men in a Circus
  • 1937
    Enoken's Chakkiri Kinta Part 2: Returning Is Scary, But the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

    Enoken's Chakkiri Kinta Part 2: Returning Is Scary, But the Weather Will Clear If You Wait (1937)

    Enoken's Chakkiri Kinta Part 2: Returning Is Scary, But the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

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    1930s Japanese comedy....

    Enoken's Chakkiri Kinta Part 2: Returning Is Scary, But the Weather Will Clear If You Wait
  • 1937
    Avalanche

    Avalanche (1937)

    Avalanche

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    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....

    Avalanche