Yōnosuke Toba Movies

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

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

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

A historical film that portrays the fervent and violent actions of young Army and Navy officers, such as the February 26 and May 15 incidents, in a...

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...