Tsutomu Shimomoto

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinzō Shin

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Shimomoto

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masao Kusakari

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koichi Sato

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Ozawa

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's...

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Cast: Hideki Saijo

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mariko Okada

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima