Tadao Sato 300 - available online with English subs

The story of a decent samurai who is widely considered a scum and a criminal. His bad luck and numerous misunderstandings drag him down the social ladder straight to the gutter.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the Imperial Court in Kyoto. He was young and slightly inexperienced, so he was given the task of instructing Lord Asano in the customs of the ceremony.

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.

Chambara (sword fighting film) about four ronins trying to save the woman they love kidnapped by the notorious Hatamoto. 8 minutes of fragments of "Ronin Street Episode 1: Beautiful Prey" were discovered and released in 2009.

A bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard.

A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.

A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother and sister in a troupe of travelling entertainers, who perform at a geisha house in mining country.

The tragic tale of a woman who despite doing good where she can gets punished by society.

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

Keitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko (Okada Yoshiko) has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

The Fukudas are really poor. Poor with lots of children. They are soon to be blessed with their seventh bundle of joy. Problems with money leads to the series of funny, sometimes even grotesque events with anarchistic touch.

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

When she reaches adulthood, a precocious young woman sets out to find her biological father, who, as her mother tells her, abandoned them for another woman.

Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

After a young shopkeeper steals the knife of one of his costumers, a samurai, a chain of increasingly complex events is set into motion.

A woman asks her brother to speak to her son. After she's sacrificed everything for him, it seems he's going to squander it all for an idle life. Though the uncle tries to set him straight, it may already be too late.

A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

The lives of two slum neighbors, one of a happy-go-lucky gambler and the other of a poor ronin, converge when the two get involved with the affairs of a powerful samurai official and his gangsters.

Two young boys are usurped from being the head of their gang of children. Their father is fired and arrested for this, and they are sent to live with their uncle, only to spend their time thinking of ways to escape back home.