Yo Shiomi Movies

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Japanese film.

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...

Part one of two.

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

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

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...

Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Jidaigeki from 1940

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese...

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"