Kokuten Kōdō Movie Trailers

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two Trailer (1945)

03 May 1945

A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later facing vengeful karate brothers.

The Red Light Military Base Trailer (1953)

08 December 1953

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Town of Violence Trailer (1950)

26 February 1950

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

An Actor's Revenge Trailer (1935)

27 June 1935

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

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.

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high birth, the other a maid, are manipulated by the threads of fate as they vie for the affection of the same young man.

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.