Musei Tokugawa Movies

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

film directed by Tai Katô

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

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

1961 Japanese movie

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini...

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,...

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

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

A short documentary filmed by staff at the Ueno Zoo that documents the behavior of wild animals in the remote regions of Africa.

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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...

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

1944 war movie

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.