Movies: Musei Tokugawa

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago....

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, ...

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form....

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family....

The fifth entry in the Company President Series...

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan i...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness....

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel....

1945 Japanese movie...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan....

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a ...

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice, Kohei takes Michiko to stay at a dilapidated mountain villa in his hometown. What awaited him there......

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A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandp...

Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses....

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

1958 Japanese movie...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives....

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates....

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...