The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

1962 Japanese movie

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of...

A businessman who dreams of a successful career ends up embroiled in a murder case after a love affair.

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...

Order of Yakuza

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

1962 Japanese movie

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

Comedy drama film

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin,...

Japanese drama film.

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Performing every night for an audience of male admirers, cabaret singer Yuri captures the attention of Yoshio Tsugawa, a motorcycle salesman who...

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

1960 Japanese movie

1957 Japanese movie

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true talent in making excellent, tasty and somewhat spicy...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

A poignant and deeply moving story of the officers and men of the Saipan “Total Annihilation” Unit, who, longing for their loved ones...

In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this...

Romantic thriller film.

Enoken's first film at Daiei.

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high...

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

A Daiei erotic film depicting the five passionate love affairs of a voluptuous married woman, driven by her beauty.

A heartwarming tale of romance and thrills featuring an aging groom who discovers the potential of an exceptional racehorse hidden within an ordinary...

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was...

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints...

The story of a young police officer who risks his career to save the soul of a woman who curses societal evils and chooses the path of...

A desperate detective on the trail of criminals who are holding a baby hostage and demanding one million yen

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

A passionate, righteous journalist, burning with indignation, draws his gun of justice in response to the death of his fellow photographer.

A passionate young man who risks his life for love and judo and the innocent young woman who adores him face off against an evil judoka at...

A couple in love are separated between the city and the countryside and face misunderstandings due to slander from those around them, but are...

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice...

After helping a woman recover her wallet, which had been stolen by a pickpocket, a rough-around-the-edges young man who is a sixth-dan judo...

Judo movie.

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

A heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...