Movies: P C L Eiga Seisaku Jo

  • 1937
    Humanity and Paper Balloons

    Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)

    Humanity and Paper Balloons

    7.91937HD

    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....

    Humanity and Paper Balloons
  • 1934
    Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô

    Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô (1934)

    Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô

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    Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou...

    Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
  • 1935
    Five Men in a Circus

    Five Men in a Circus (1935)

    Five Men in a Circus

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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...

    Five Men in a Circus
  • 1936
    Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

    Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel (1936)

    Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

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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....

    Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel
  • 1937
    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf

    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf (1937)

    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf

    01937HD

    Story of a bandit king....

    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
  • 1936
    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers

    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers (1936)

    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers

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    Paradise of the Virgin Flowers
  • 1936
    I Am a Cat

    I Am a Cat (1936)

    I Am a Cat

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

    I Am a Cat
  • 1937
    Avalanche

    Avalanche (1937)

    Avalanche

    6.51937HD

    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....

    Avalanche
  • 1935
    Enoken's Kondo Isami

    Enoken's Kondo Isami (1935)

    Enoken's Kondo Isami

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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....

    Enoken's Kondo Isami
  • 1936
    Enoken’s Ten Millions

    Enoken’s Ten Millions (1936)

    Enoken’s Ten Millions

    01936HD

    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....

    Enoken’s Ten Millions
  • 1935
    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    71935HD

    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...

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!
  • 1936
    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    6.71936HD

    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...

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street
  • 1937
    Learn from Experience, Part One

    Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)

    Learn from Experience, Part One

    61937HD

    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...

    Learn from Experience, Part One
  • 1936
    Akireta renchû

    Akireta renchû (1936)

    Akireta renchû

    01936HD

    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...

    Akireta renchû
  • 1935
    The Girl in the Rumor

    The Girl in the Rumor (1935)

    The Girl in the Rumor

    5.91935HD

    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...

    The Girl in the Rumor
  • 1935
    The Actress and the Poet

    The Actress and the Poet (1935)

    The Actress and the Poet

    6.21935HD

    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 ...

    The Actress and the Poet
  • 1936
    Enoken's Donguri Tonbei

    Enoken's Donguri Tonbei (1936)

    Enoken's Donguri Tonbei

    01936HD

    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...

    Enoken's Donguri Tonbei
  • 1933
    Tipsy Life

    Tipsy Life (1933)

    Tipsy Life

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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...

    Tipsy Life
  • 1935
    Drifting

    Drifting (1935)

    Drifting

    01935HD

    Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel....

    Drifting
  • 1934
    Romantic and Crazy

    Romantic and Crazy (1934)

    Romantic and Crazy

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    Romantic and Crazy