Senji Itô Trailers
Beyond the Hills TrailerSekai no haha TrailerGhost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo Trailer
Beyond the Hills TrailerSekai no haha TrailerGhost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo Trailer
Total trailers found: 45
01 May 1941
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally.
01 July 1937
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
30 January 1960
On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around.
02 February 1938
Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows of women in a geisha house in Kyoto by recounting the relationships of its inhabitants.
01 May 1937
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
29 January 1956
A young princess is kidnapped and put on a pirate ship bound for Hokkaido and the villainous Jaguar. Her only hope is the cook and a young man who knows Judo.
23 October 1952
The final film in the Beehive trilogy. Set in post-war Nara, it follows a group of orphans living in a temple who support themselves by acting as guides for tourists visiting the Great Buddha.
29 September 1938
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married.
13 September 1949
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life.
29 April 1940
A film based on the memoir of a 4th grade student who received the grand prize in a writing contest sponsored by Gyeongseong Daily.
03 March 1937
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka.
03 October 1951
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28.
01 March 1941
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
19 September 1940
When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions within the Jōruri troupe in which her husband plays.
15 September 1936
A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.
16 March 1941
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances.
13 February 1949
In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
23 November 1941
A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers.
09 February 1941
Follows the life of an illegitimate son of a kabuki actor.
17 September 1948
Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, so she resorts to prostitution.
13 October 1939
In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir.
09 April 1940
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
11 November 1937
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
05 February 1956
Judo and Shaolin team up to defeat the magician Jaguar and restore a Princess to her rightful riches, gold stashed under a mountain in Hokkaido.
30 January 1941
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble.
15 November 1940
A propaganda film used by the Japanese military to recruit young Korean men as soldiers to defend thI
07 November 1941
A young filmmaker and his crew struggle to bring the famous Korean story of Chunghyang to the big screen.
04 June 1949
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
24 February 1948
A unique tale of romance and action in which an escaped convict fights villains to save his comrade’s sister from danger, only to fall in battle.
24 August 1948
A group of war orphans initially seen scratching out an existence through black market work, as they are taken under the wing of a nameless soldier, just repatriated after the war.
07 July 1938
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains.
27 July 1948
A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.
29 May 1941
A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.
10 July 1957
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
07 December 1948
Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumnal bus ride from a hot spring town through a mountain pass.
03 August 1954
Suspense film based on the "Carbine Gang Incident" that happened in June 1954 in Japan.
12 February 1951
In Shimizu’s sequel to his 1948 masterpiece, a journalist arrives in the secluded foothills of Izu to find a hidden commune to ask, “What happened to the children of the Beehive?