Masaru Kodaka Movies

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Two brothers move to their grandfather's house after their father is drafted and play war games with their new classmates.

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

Japanese comedy film.

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Japanese comedy film.

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.