Movies: P C L Eiga Seisaku Jo
- 1937
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
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In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married....
- 1934
Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô (1934)
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Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou...
- 1935
Five Men in a Circus (1935)
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The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and sc...
- 1936
Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel (1936)
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The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken's young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job – in drag and sometimes blackface – to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious man....
- 1937
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf (1937)
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Story of a bandit king....
- 1936
Paradise of the Virgin Flowers (1936)
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- 1936
I Am a Cat (1936)
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1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel....
- 1937
Avalanche (1937)
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The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife....
- 1935
Enoken's Kondo Isami (1935)
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Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration....
- 1936
Enoken’s Ten Millions (1936)
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Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song....
- 1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
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Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her f...
- 1936
Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)
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As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in d...
- 1937
Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)
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Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. U...
- 1936
Akireta renchû (1936)
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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 film. Here, Entatsu and Achako start out as rivals for the affection of a young woman but ultimately...
- 1935
The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
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A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to tamper with his stock; Meanwhile, his long-time mist...
- 1935
The Actress and the Poet (1935)
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Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open ...
- 1936
Enoken's Donguri Tonbei (1936)
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Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the ear...
- 1933
Tipsy Life (1933)
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The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a company founded specifically to take advantage of emergent sound technology. P.C.L. worked in collaboration wi...
- 1935
Drifting (1935)
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Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel....
- 1934
Romantic and Crazy (1934)
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