Known for
NRPeriod comedy with fantasy elements.
Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Five Jolly Thieves
1960
NRThe 9th "Ekimae" feature.
Mumu Dance
1964
NRThe 17th "Ekimae" feature.
How to Win a Race
1966
NRThe 10th "Ekimae" feature.
Heavenly Gods in Front of the train Station
1964
NRThe 12th "Ekimae" feature.
Finances in Front of the Train Station
1965
Behind the camera
NRPeriod comedy with fantasy elements.
Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Five Jolly Thieves
1960
NRThe 9th "Ekimae" feature.
Mumu Dance
1964
NRThe 17th "Ekimae" feature.
How to Win a Race
1966
NRThe 10th "Ekimae" feature.
Heavenly Gods in Front of the train Station
1964
NRThe 12th "Ekimae" feature.
Finances in Front of the Train Station
1965
NRThe 16th "Ekimae" feature.
Big Wind at the Spa
1966
NRThe 18th "Ekimae" feature.
Mahjong Madness
1967
NRThe 11th "Ekimae" feature.
Hospital in Front of the Train Station
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Masseur War Story
1965
NRPeriod comedy about an undertaker's assistant in love with the daughter of a wealthy doctor. When her father refuses to allow the young lovers to marry and they attempt double suicide, Death comes to their rescue.
My Friend Death
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shichinin no ani imōto
1955
NRA young judo athlete ends up working as a cabaret bouncer.
Yearning
1954
No synopsis available yet.
Four Mothers
1954
No synopsis available yet.
Four Mothers
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mashiroki Fuji no mine
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Violent Ishimatsu
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hanayome hanamuko chanbara bushi
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi
1952
NR1961 Japanese movie
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
1961
7.0The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives.
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten
1966
8.015th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series Osomatsu-kun and Obake no Q-Taro.
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga
1966
NRSinger Eri stars in this modern musical.
Count on Me
1960
10.0Seventh in the Ekimae series, detailing the exploits of the landladies around Ryogoku Station in Tokyo, and their sumo clientele.
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Landlady
1964
NRA comedy movie for salaryman.
Asu wa Nichiyōbi
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
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
NRA young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.
Outlaw
1953
No synopsis available yet.
Gendai shojo
1953
NRMusical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
The Paradise Island Story
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mabuta no haha
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Haha ningyō
1951
NRComedy based on a popular manga.
Obon's Dipping Contest
1961
7.0#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
A Comedy in Front of the Station: University
1965
NRMusical comedy starring Watanabe Productions recording stars Nakao, Sono, and Ito as Toho's new "Sannin musume," three young women intended for 1960s audiences what Hibari Misora, Izumi Yukimura, and Chiemi Eri had been in the 50s.
Yes! Yes! 3 Young Girls
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
School Girls
1955
NRDue to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
Haha chidori
1951
10.0Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.
Hot Spring Ghost
1964
NRA handsome young man infiltrates the Tanuki Kingdom, where conspiracies swirl around the Divine Mirror; he rescues the princess and turns the evil ministers against each other.
Awa tanuki yashiki
1952
NRA 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 birth, the other a maid, are manipulated by the threads of fate as they vie for the affection of the same young man.
Asashio yushio
1956
