Torajirô Saitô

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited. (imdb)

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day.

A Hibari Misora musical. (The Movie Database)

A Japanese war-era comedy film.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Kingorô Yanagiya gets married against his will. Eventually they have two sons in their poverty-riddled wanderings, and she dies. A rich couple foster the younger boy, while Yanagiya and the other....

A film about life in Tokyo right after World War II.

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and second parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war. (Cinema Japan Retrospective)

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while avoiding her wealthy, absentee father, his hired goons, and the neighborhood fortune teller (Enoken) who's after the reward money.

A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an Echigo lion mask, a memento of Chomatsu's deceased father. After several incidents of Echigo lion masks being destroyed in the area, a local kingpin Saheiji shows up at Denbei's demands he hand over the mask, a request Denbei rejects out of pity for Chomatsu. However, after it is accidentally revealed that the mask contains an important map, ...