Musei Tokugawa Movies

1945 Japanese movie

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Costume comedy

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

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

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...

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...

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

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

1944 war movie

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

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

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.