Browse 13 movies from Shôchiku Dôga Kenkyûjo
A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.
Oct 1958
Jul 1967
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.
Mar 1964
Jan 1983
Apr 1960
Nov 1964
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
Jul 1939
Nemoto Ritsuko is the girlfriend of Kuroki Tamotsu. Both are 22 years old. Ritsuko lives with her father, Shingo, a piano tuner and city hall clerk. Meanwhile, Tamotsu is a small club's pianist in Yokohama. Ritsuko, close to the age of marriage, is worried and forms a concrete plan. Ritsuko's sister, Kinue, arranges for her to meet her husbands colleague Abe Goro. Tamotsu and Ritsuko wind up quarreling on their date the following day where Tamotsu eventually promises to meet her father. However, due to their conflicting future life plans, their relationship begins to fray. They begin to go their separate ways, however...
Dec 1970
Oct 1945
The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War II as it encouraged westernization and contrasted with the traditional bow prevalent in that country.
May 1946
A spider attempts to lure a ladybug into his web. When she manages to escape and hide in a tulip, a storm comes that batters the spider, while the ladybug remains safe.
Apr 1943
Wartime propaganda film loosely based on the attack on Pearl Harbour in which Fuku-chan assaults a den of thieves who had been terrorizing the town.
Mar 1942
Dogs play a game of rugby against a team of unscrupulous monkeys.
Dec 1943