Movies: Sumie Tsubaki

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugee...

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal for...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896)....

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....

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 warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family....

Story of a bandit king part 2....

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version...

Story of a bandit king....

Film adaptation of the hit song...

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane....

A Japanese-speaking family in occupied Korea deal with the war....

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Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song....

1940 Japanese movie...