Movies: Zenichiro Kito

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it....

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events....

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Japanese film....

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added ep...

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Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a cana...

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumored, drove the previous champion (Kazuma’s father) to suicide. Possessed of much raw tale...

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugee...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa....

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....

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Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios...

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow....

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets in...

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen....

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi...

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series k...