Directing

Kenjirō Morinaga

Born — Died

1909-08-23 — 1994-02-11

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

The Sound of Waves poster
7.0

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

The Sound of Waves

1964

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies! poster
9.0

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

1970

Beautiful Calendar poster
NR

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just started, and a chemistry teacher Murao who she respects, and is enjoying every day.

Beautiful Calendar

1963

青春のお通り poster
NR

1965 Nikkatsu movie.

青春のお通り

1965

No artwork available
NR

While conducting a crackdown on contraband cigarettes at Ueno Station, inspector Tetsuro Shibuya came across an envelope addressed to Misa Makihara inside an unattended backpack filled with loose tobacco. Misa was ostensibly an employee of Yamagishi Shokai, a real estate firm, but in reality she was the mistress of Yuzo Yamagishi, a cigarette bootlegger. Yamagishi’s contraband cigarettes were made from loose tobacco sourced from Misa’s uncle, Kisaku, in Ibaraki.

Jigoku no fue

1949

Let's find your sweetheart poster
NR

Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery after she was involved in a hit-and-run accident, giving up on furthering his education. During this time, a relative's college student named Ikuko visits him and introduces him to her grandfather, Tatsunosuke. Tatsunosuke, a wealthy man, asks Tetsuo to take over his business, but...

Let's find your sweetheart

1967

Behind the camera

The Sound of Waves poster
7.0

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

The Sound of Waves

1964

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies! poster
9.0

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

1970

Beautiful Calendar poster
NR

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just started, and a chemistry teacher Murao who she respects, and is enjoying every day.

Beautiful Calendar

1963

青春のお通り poster
NR

1965 Nikkatsu movie.

青春のお通り

1965

No artwork available
NR

While conducting a crackdown on contraband cigarettes at Ueno Station, inspector Tetsuro Shibuya came across an envelope addressed to Misa Makihara inside an unattended backpack filled with loose tobacco. Misa was ostensibly an employee of Yamagishi Shokai, a real estate firm, but in reality she was the mistress of Yuzo Yamagishi, a cigarette bootlegger. Yamagishi’s contraband cigarettes were made from loose tobacco sourced from Misa’s uncle, Kisaku, in Ibaraki.

Jigoku no fue

1949

Let's find your sweetheart poster
NR

Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery after she was involved in a hit-and-run accident, giving up on furthering his education. During this time, a relative's college student named Ikuko visits him and introduces him to her grandfather, Tatsunosuke. Tatsunosuke, a wealthy man, asks Tetsuo to take over his business, but...

Let's find your sweetheart

1967

Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō poster
NR

A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance.

Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō

1956

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Kingorô no omawari-san

1956

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love poster
NR

Sequel to Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love

1966

Hitotsu no inochi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Hitotsu no inochi

1962

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa poster
7.0

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

1964

Four Young Sisters poster
6.0

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.

Four Young Sisters

1964

Four Young Sisters poster
6.0

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.

Four Young Sisters

1964

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji poster
NR

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks after her. Her father Shuhei moved from Tokyo to Jushi to provide a peaceful environment for his sick daughter. One day Azusa meets Tomita, a high school student, and falls in love with him at first sight. This is a masterpiece of literary lyrics, about two sisters living with bright and pure love, looking at the approaching shadow of death and giving all their feelings to limited youth.

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

1963

Youth A Go Go! poster
NR

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

Youth A Go Go!

1966

Student Double Suicide poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Student Double Suicide

1954

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

Cry for Sorrow

1966

The Final Winner? poster
8.0

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

The Final Winner?

1968

Asakusa Sisters poster
10.0

A young chef at a small restaurant in Asakusa, with a past conviction for breaking into a safe, defeats the evil boss and ends up marrying his lover.

Asakusa Sisters

1960

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo poster
NR

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there.

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

1961

高校四年 poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

高校四年

1957

Jūdai no kawa poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jūdai no kawa

1962

Time of First Love poster
NR

3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.

Time of First Love

1975

Boku dōshite namida ga deru no poster
NR

1965 Japanese movie

Boku dōshite namida ga deru no

1965

No artwork available
NR

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

1966

Rikidozan: Man of Fury poster
NR

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

Rikidozan: Man of Fury

1955

Star of Destiny poster
NR

"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated them. When Eiji learns that his sister is engaged, he is determined to reunite with his mother and relay the wonderful news. With a pocket full of hopes and just one clue that may lead him to his mother, Eiji sets off for Taiwan.

Star of Destiny

1966

Thanks for the Tears poster
NR

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.

Thanks for the Tears

1965

Hana to musume to shiroi michi poster
NR

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Hana to musume to shiroi michi

1961

Kon'nichiwa 20 sai poster
NR

After being widowed, Mihoko Ishizawa supports her five daughters by running a boarding house. Most of her daughters eventually marry former student tenants, but her independent-minded youngest daughter, Kanako, resists traditional expectations and clashes with her mother’s views on marriage and women’s roles. When a medical student named Kawasaki moves in, Kanako gradually forms a connection with him, forcing the family to confront changing attitudes toward love, independence, and modern life.

Kon'nichiwa 20 sai

1964

Confession of a girl: Purity poster
9.0

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit of love and sex between a high school senior soccer player and a female student in the same class.

Confession of a girl: Purity

1968

君恋し poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

君恋し

1962

Yami wo saku kuchibue poster
NR

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.

Yami wo saku kuchibue

1960

Naku n janai ze poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Naku n janai ze

1962

Taiyō no yō ni akaruku poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Taiyō no yō ni akaruku

1962

汚れた顔 poster
NR

1959 Japanese movie

汚れた顔

1959

Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi poster
NR

The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess with Shinichi Mori singing in the background.

Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi

1969

美しき別れの歌 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

美しき別れの歌

1960

The Spiders: Big Commotion! poster
10.0

The Spiders arrive back in Tokyo and end up in a car accident with a beautiful fan, Yuko, who the lead singers fall in love with while she convalesces at the Hospital.

The Spiders: Big Commotion!

1968

The Sunset Is Crying poster
NR

Young men get together and dream of becoming a successful band, while a young woman (Masako Izumi) dreams of becoming a successful manager. Inspired by her brother, a Jazz Guitarist (Shoji Yokouchi) and the successful band The Spiders, they form a new band called "Young & Fresh" and work hard to make it.

The Sunset Is Crying

1967