Movies: Hajime Morita

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Tsuke Ryunosuke...

In this Japanese retelling of Cinderella, Okuro (Takayama) is the unfortunate stepdaughter of a family of tanuki: shape-shifting raccoon dogs. She hopes to see the tanuki prince (former Takarazuka star Miyagi) against her stepmother's wishes; the ma...

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A lost film directed by Mori Kazuo....

A 1941 Japanese film directed by Shinzo Yoshida....

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The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass....

A mysterious black hooded man intervenes when an anti-government group who plots to steal the precious blue diamond called “Maguna no Hitomi.”...

film directed by Tai Katô...

A young man and a woman are on a mission to protect a mysterious mirror that hides the secrets of a great fortune....

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried that she might be living in misery, he saves his money to help, only to find that she has married into ...