WBlack Cat Mansion is a 1958 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa for Shintoho. The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, taking place in the characters' present and past, and in the distant past. It is one of several Japanese "ghost cat" films, featuring a cat-like supernatural entity.
WFearful Attack of the Flying Saucers is a 1956 independently made Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed and written by Shinichi Sekizawa and produced by Kokumotsu films.
WThe Ghost of Yotsuya is a 1959 Japanese horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa. The film is based on the kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan. The was among the many horror films that Nakagawa adapted for Shintoho in the late 1950s and was one of the many adaptations of the play.
WGinza Cosmetics is a 1951 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a novel by Tomoichirō Inoue.
WGinza Kankan Musume is a 1949 black and white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima.
WJigoku , also titled The Sinners of Hell, is a 1960 Japanese horror film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa and produced by Shintoho. The film stars Utako Mitsuya and Shigeru Amachi, and is notable for separating itself from other Japanese horror films of the era such as Kwaidan or Onibaba due to its graphic imagery of torment in Hell. It has gained a cult film status. Shintoho declared bankruptcy in 1961, its last production being Jigoku.
WKoi Sugata Kitsune Goten (恋すがた狐御殿) is a 1956 black and white Japanese film directed by Nobuo Nakagawa.
WThe Life of Oharu is a 1952 Japanese historical fiction film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi from a screenplay by Yoshikata Yoda. It stars Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyō who struggles to escape the stigma of having been forced into prostitution by her father.
WMother is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse, starring Kinuyo Tanaka in the title role. The screenplay by Yūko Mizuki is based on the prize-winning entry of a school essay-writing competition.
WOnna Keirin-ō (女競輪王) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Haku Komori
WSennin Buraku is a manga series by Kō Kojima which ran in the adult magazine Weekly Asahi Geinō, published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan. It is the longest running comic with only one artist, being published weekly since October 1956, and the longest-running strip ever in Japan. By contrast, Golgo 13 is the longest running manga to be serialized in a dedicated manga magazine with Doraemon the second longest, and Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo (Kochi-Kame) the third longest. While Sennin Buraku has been running for more years than Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz's strip has more "episodes" as it ran daily rather than weekly. The story was a romantic comedy taking place in historical China, and it was quite risqué for its time. The characters were very traditionally dressed. Although the anime is very hard to find, it has been rerun on Japanese television, all episodes have appeared on DVD, and episodes have been saved on Internet torrents.
WStray Dog is a 1949 Japanese film noir crime drama directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Art Association and released by Shintoho. It is also considered a detective movie that explores the mood of Japan during its painful postwar recovery. The film is also considered a precursor to the contemporary police procedural and buddy cop film genres, based on its premise of pairing two cops with different personalities and motivations together on a difficult case.
WTakekurabe is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It is based on Higuchi Ichiyō's 1895-1896 novella Takekurabe.