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...

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...

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

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

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

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Documentary about Japanese pearl fishers.

WW2 newsreel documentary film

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...

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

Karakorumu documentary film

Educational film commissioned by Kansai Electric Power Company