Mansaku Itami

Directing

Mansaku Itami

Born 1900-01-02 · Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

I Am a Bodyguard poster
9.0

1950 Japanese movie

I Am a Bodyguard

1950

Life of Matsu the Untamed poster
10.0

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Life of Matsu the Untamed

1965

Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido poster
NR

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido

1952

The Daughter of the Samurai poster
6.0

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.

The Daughter of the Samurai

1937

The Rickshaw Man poster
7.2

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

The Rickshaw Man

1958

Children Hand in Hand poster
7.0

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

Children Hand in Hand

1948

The Life of Matsu the Untamed poster
6.8

Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents.

The Life of Matsu the Untamed

1943

No artwork available
NR

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating duel takes place on a night of fireworks.

Fireworks

1931

No artwork available
NR

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating duel takes place on a night of fireworks.

Fireworks

1931

Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen poster
9.0

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen

1934

No artwork available
NR

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Professional Killer

1932

The Letter poster
6.4

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

The Letter

1936

The Letter poster
6.4

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

The Letter

1936

The Wandering Gambler poster
6.1

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of living. His frined, Ando Kichinosuke, is alarmed at Mosui's despondency and invites him to his house as his little sister Tsuyu and he try to cheer him up.

The Wandering Gambler

1928

No artwork available
NR

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

1934

No artwork available
NR

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

1934

No artwork available
NR

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life in her hometown where she is tired of the city. The original is a stage play by Yobun Kaneko. Directed and written by Mansaku Itami.

Hometown

1937

No artwork available
NR

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life in her hometown where she is tired of the city. The original is a stage play by Yobun Kaneko. Directed and written by Mansaku Itami.

Hometown

1937

The Greatest Man in the World poster
5.6

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him into Ise Isenokami, the finest swordsman under the sun. Pretending to be his followers, they visit various sword fighting dojo. Out of fear upon hearing the name Isenokami, they pay him off and do not let him enter their training halls. The impostor eventually comes face to face with the real Isenokami after rescuing his daughter, Oyae, who is caught up in a minor incident.

The Greatest Man in the World

1932

No artwork available
10.0

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Tenka taiheiki

1928

Children Hand in Hand poster
10.0

The film centres around a group of schoolchildren navigating the complexities of friendship, trust, and honesty. At its heart is a thoughtful and suppressed boy with a learning disability whose interactions with his classmates oscillate between evoking tenderness and triggering aggression.

Children Hand in Hand

1964

Capricious Young Man poster
7.0

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the competition.

Capricious Young Man

1935

Capricious Young Man poster
7.0

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the competition.

Capricious Young Man

1935

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chuji for Sale

1935