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...

Documentary following the travels of the Waseda University Middle-Africa Expedition Team and their encounters with the beauty of the African...

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent...

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...

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

Documentary short.

Documentary about the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants baseball team.

Unaware that the war had ended, two Japanese soldiers who had been hiding in the jungles of Guam returned home. During their sixteen years on the...

Documentary short about orangutans.

Pacific war documentary culled from approximately 40,000 feet of Nippon Eiga Shinsha wartime stock, as well from British and American sources. Film...

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

Documentary short.

Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima

Documentary which continues the story of the construction of what then was the second-largest dam in the world, and the gorge through the Japan Alps...