Musei Tokugawa Movies

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

1958 Japanese movie

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword...

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of...

A documentary short highlighting the cultural attractions of Ise-Shima National Park in eastern Mie Prefecture, a popular coastal sightseeing...

1945 Japanese movie

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

film directed by Tai Katô

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.