Movies: Toho Eiga Co Ltd

  • 1943
    Sanshiro Sugata

    Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

    Sanshiro Sugata

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    The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo. The main character is based on Shiro Saigo, a legendary judoka....

    Sanshiro Sugata
  • 1938
    Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

    Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)

    Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

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    Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other....

    Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
  • 1941
    The Battle of Kawanakajima

    The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)

    The Battle of Kawanakajima

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    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...

    The Battle of Kawanakajima
  • 1941
    Story of Leadership

    Story of Leadership (1941)

    Story of Leadership

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    In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work with practical lessons and classroom components. Hi...

    Story of Leadership
  • 1940
    The Monkey King

    The Monkey King (1940)

    The Monkey King

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    A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenich...

    The Monkey King
  • 1940
    Hikari to kage (Kōhen)

    Hikari to kage (Kōhen) (1940)

    Hikari to kage (Kōhen)

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    Part two of two....

    Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
  • 1940
    The Burning Sky

    The Burning Sky (1940)

    The Burning Sky

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    The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported t...

    The Burning Sky
  • 1940
    The Snake Princess

    The Snake Princess (1940)

    The Snake Princess

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    When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister behind. While running from both the authorities and the assassins, Sentarô meets with the beautiful travelling-actress Oshim...

    The Snake Princess
  • 1943
    Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky

    Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky (1943)

    Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky

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    Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recr...

    Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
  • 1938
    Fallen Blossoms

    Fallen Blossoms (1938)

    Fallen Blossoms

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    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....

    Fallen Blossoms
  • 1943
    Hot Wind

    Hot Wind (1943)

    Hot Wind

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    Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast furnaces that prevent increased production. The film was shot on location at the actual Yawata Steel...

    Hot Wind
  • 1943
    The Opium War

    The Opium War (1943)

    The Opium War

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    The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war....

    The Opium War
  • 1938
    The Giant

    The Giant (1938)

    The Giant

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    Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be ...

    The Giant
  • 1941
    Yukiko and Natsuyo

    Yukiko and Natsuyo (1941)

    Yukiko and Natsuyo

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    Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940....

    Yukiko and Natsuyo
  • 1942
    The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

    The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya (1942)

    The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

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    Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales....

    The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
  • 1939
    Flower Picking Diary

    Flower Picking Diary (1939)

    Flower Picking Diary

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    Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka....

    Flower Picking Diary
  • 1939
    Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

    Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu (1939)

    Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

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    A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity Enoken takes to farcical extremes....

    Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu
  • 1939
    The Whole Family Works

    The Whole Family Works (1939)

    The Whole Family Works

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    Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses....

    The Whole Family Works
  • 1937
    Learn from Experience, Part Two

    Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937)

    Learn from Experience, Part Two

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    Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl...

    Learn from Experience, Part Two
  • 1938
    Enoken's Surprising Life

    Enoken's Surprising Life (1938)

    Enoken's Surprising Life

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    Enoken's Surprising Life