Chishū Ryū Movies

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...

Lost silent film

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

1945 Japanese movie

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

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...

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...