Acting
Seiichi Katô
Acting credits
7.4A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.
The Only Son
1936
7.5Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.
I Was Born, But...
1932
No synopsis available yet.
The President and the Shopgirl
1948
6.6In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.
Passing Fancy
1933
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
1929
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Our Planes Fly South
1943
7.0After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.
The Ball at the Anjo House
1947
7.3Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
1940
7.0When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.
The Life of an Office Worker
1929
6.8A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
Flunky, Work Hard!
1931
5.8A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.
A Mother Should Be Loved
1934
8.0The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store on the beach to get rich...
The Layabout and Seabathing
1933
NRJapanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Dancing with a Mask
1943
NRHiroo Ikeda movie
Sono yoru no tsuma
1952