Kōji Mitsui Filmes

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the...

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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...

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him...

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

Venice Film Festival 1939

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

A 1948 Japanese film.

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita...

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

1962 Japanese movie