Yōnosuke Toba Movies

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

A historical film that portrays the fervent and violent actions of young Army and Navy officers, such as the February 26 and May 15 incidents, in a...

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass