Atsushi Watanabe Movies

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by...

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

1950 Japanese movie

A former samurai, whose lover had died while he was traveling, was returning to Edo when he met a woman at Shinagawa-juku.

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

1949 drama film

Japanese comedy film.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Original work by Hyakken Uchida.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Because of her husband’s suicide, a young widow finds herself suddenly cast into a life of solitude, with only her beloved child in her arms....