Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

1961 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

1950s Japanese comedy.

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths...

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, Tachikawa Maki publishes the Ginza Minpo, a small...

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

4 sisters inherited a sum of money and try to get married

Backstage friendships and rivalries flare as dancers Akiko and Haruko compete for roles, clash with disapproving parents, and juggle new romances. A...

Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.

Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Chinese trader.

Punch, Pinch, and Sentchi share a dorm room while working as caddies at a country club. Their easygoing routine is disrupted by clashes with wealthy...

Backstage romance about opera singers.

After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police, an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had...

Comedy about residents of Shinjuku.

Story of an ex-sailor, caught up in a murder mystery involving gold dust buried in Manchuria, while romancing a woman whose father may be the center...

In this sequel to Three Dolls in College, the three friends continue their adventures and get into a rockabilly club in Ginza.

A short musical comedy centered on seven star singers performing their hit songs. A tape recorder has been stolen, and it contains the star...

The third of four "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" films.

The second "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" feature.