Known for
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shoya naki kekkon
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nureta hitomi
1959
NRChieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn grandmother in her hometown in Kyushu, who was trying to force her to marry Komori, the local ringleader.
Inhibited Love
1955
NRJudo movie.
Duel at Noon
1957
6.4Gamera 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 discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Gamera vs. Barugon
1966
NRKeita, who had been taken along as a cover for his father-in-law’s affair, was discovered by his new wife when she unexpectedly showed up while he was sharing a room with a geisha.
The Bride Carries On
1956
Film credits
1970s · 1 titles
1960s · 15 titles
6.4Gamera 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 discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Gamera vs. Barugon
1966
NRA small restaurant tucked away in the back of Ginza is run by Keiko, the owner’s daughter. Writers, club owners, corporate executives, and others are drawn to her charm.
Yoru wa usotsuki
1960
6.7Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
A Wife Confesses
1961
5.9Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
Ten Women in Black
1961
7.7Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
Ken
1964
6.5A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.
Les Mesdemoiselles
1961
8.2The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Thousand Cranes
1969
7.0A 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 tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.
While Yet a Wife
1965
9.0Toshiko 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 secret affair.
She Came For Love
1963
9.0No synopsis available yet.
High School Geisha
1968
9.0Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.
The Pit of Death
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Suitors
1967
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Closing Time
1962
NRA young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
Back Stairways
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Prize of Flesh
1961
1950s · 40 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shoya naki kekkon
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nureta hitomi
1959
NRChieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn grandmother in her hometown in Kyushu, who was trying to force her to marry Komori, the local ringleader.
Inhibited Love
1955
NRJudo movie.
Duel at Noon
1957
NRKeita, who had been taken along as a cover for his father-in-law’s affair, was discovered by his new wife when she unexpectedly showed up while he was sharing a room with a geisha.
The Bride Carries On
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Gendai shojo
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rōkyoku tengu dōjō
1955
NRTaki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.
Hahabue kobue
1955
NRYosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was deceived by a man named Taichi Tachikawa and sold into prostitution in a red-light district. He then set foot in this district for the first time and met Michiko Kawabe, a female reporter known by the nickname “Yoshie.” After hearing various details about the situation from her, he learned that Toyo was at “Kotogawa.”
Dorei no machi
1951
NRA man and a woman whose love is forbidden due to a feud between their parents resolve to die together and head to the island of Sado.
Atarashiki ten
1954
NRA passionate singer who’s rough around the edges but has a warm heart; a kind-hearted, impoverished painter who devotes himself wholeheartedly; and a beautiful opera singer loved by both of them—the joys and sorrows of Asakusa during the golden age of opera.
Asakusa Lights
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tsuki no kōdōkan
1956
NRA college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.
Teen-ager's Resistance
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Konna okusama mita koto nai
1954
NRA kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty conceals her true feelings… The stories of love and friendship that unfold in a poor town shrouded in fog.
Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi
1955
NRAs she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age story of laughter and tears that unfolds at this all-girls’ school, revolving around a rookie teacher.
Miss Teacher
1955
NRA musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.
Utau onna kengeki
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Asakusa monogatari
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha no mizūmi
1953
8.0In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.
Dancing Girl
1957
7.3The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
Lightning
1952
7.8The 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 girl.
Warm Current
1957
Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered through the window at her daughter in her wedding gown, her eyes filled with tears.
Haha zukiyo
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
6.8Tamio 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 told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
The Crowded Train
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Sea of Beauty
1950
NRA story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.
Nanatsu no seiza
1951
NRA yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle of a gangster’s gun…
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kyūjō hiroba
1951
8.0The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
The Cast-Off
1959
NRAdaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
The Messenger from the Moon
1954
8.0Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
The Betrothed
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mother
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love River
1958
8.0Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shigeo Nakaki.
The Eyes of Two People
1952
NRA love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post-war period, where new customs and old traditions mix.
Made in Japan
1953
No synopsis available yet.
Honoo no hada
1951
NRA handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.
Nenneko Shain
1956
NRFilm directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
Jūdai no yūwaku
1953
1940s · 4 titles
NRRomantic thriller film.
Sanmenkyō no kyōfu
1948
Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named Nanbu. However, during a police raid, Michiko was the only unlucky one to be taken into custody. The next morning, her mother Chiyo was summoned to pick her up and was reunited there with her biological son, Prosecutor Hagiwara.
Haha tōdai
1949
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 Yukiko, his father’s niece, whom the hospital director had arranged for him to wed, and eventually ran away from home to live alone in an apartment. However, following his father’s sudden death, Tsutsui, a newly rich man who had invested heavily in Sakai Hospital, was plotting to seize control of the hospital by taking advantage of the situation.
Hana no jitsugetsu
1949
NR1948 Japanese movie
Shin Aizen Katsura
1948

