Musei Tokugawa Movies

1958 Japanese movie

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

1945 Japanese movie

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

A short documentary filmed by staff at the Ueno Zoo that documents the behavior of wild animals in the remote regions of Africa.

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...