Nihon Eiga Shinsha Movies

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with...

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the years. It picks one such person from the...

A history of the Pacific War comprising of American combat footage with Japanese wartime newsreels

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Karakorumu documentary film

Documentary about Japanese pearl fishers.

A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of...

WW2 newsreel documentary film

A 1954 documentary about Japanese fishermen aboard the "Lucky Dragon" who were irradiated by the American Castle Bravo nuclear test in the Pacific.

Educational film commissioned by Kansai Electric Power Company