Kokuten Kōdō Movie Trailers

The Horse Boy Trailer (1957)

19 February 1957

A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness.

Green Earth Trailer (1942)

01 April 1942

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business.

The Big Boss Trailer (1959)

15 January 1959

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead.

Red Peony of Night Trailer (1950)

08 December 1950

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.

Dancers of Awa Trailer (1941)

21 May 1941

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin.

Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain Trailer (1951)

11 February 1951

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

Three Women Around Yoshinaka Trailer (1956)

15 January 1956

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari.

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki Trailer (1932)

01 December 1932

Yoru no hato Trailer (1937)

11 May 1937

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Bellflower Trailer (1940)

30 July 1940

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya.

Song of the White Orchid Trailer (1939)

30 November 1939

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.