In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is the...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although...

First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and...

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese war drama.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.

Japanese comedy film.

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent...

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...

1950s Japanese comedy.

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

1958 Mito Kumon movie

1957 Japanese movie

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

1962 Japanese movie

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she...

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the...

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.