Musei Tokugawa Movies

1945 Japanese movie

An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.

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

Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother...

A short documentary filmed by staff at the Ueno Zoo that documents the behavior of wild animals in the remote regions of Africa.

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

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

At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice,...

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

1961 Japanese movie

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

1944 war movie

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

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

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.