Masaru Kodaka

A pirate hunts down women. (The Movie Database)

Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky describes the challenging training of young boys in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. Yokaren was highly selective, and thus an object of great fascination and desire for boys and young men. In this Navy–sponsored film, ... (letterboxd)

The Tanuki are invisible beings who take pleasure in hunting people. They can take any human form, as well as those of animals and other fantastic creatures. (moviemeter)

The film begins with an opening sequence of shuffling ghost-like zombies rising from the waves to drag the workers of a deserted shipyard, swirling with dry ice, to their doom. The ghosts main target however is the village kingpin, and employer of the diving girls, Satomura. When his wife and youngest daughter are abducted, it is up to his remaining daughter Nami and her ama companions to get to the bottom of the mystery, which again revolves around sunken treasure and a gang of swarthy crooks. (Jasper Sharp)

Masako Toyoda writes an essay. Following the instructions of her teacher, she improves it, and eventually one of her compositions is published in a magazine. However, in her effort to be honest, the article contains a slighting remark about the most powerful man in the neighborhood. Her father, a poor tinsmith, loses jobs, his bicycle is stolen, and the family has nothing to eat.

Japanese comedy film.

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films with a vision of the noble, obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan.