Toshiaki Konoe Movies

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom...

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

A 1937 Japanese film.

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

1954 Japanese movie

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

An adaptation of the famous 16th century novel, Journey to the West.

In the late afternoon in Kyoto’s Ponto-chō, as Tsuruko, a maiko who had just left Tsurunoya, was crossing a small bridge over the Takase...