Minoru Yokoyama Movies

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away....

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his...

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in...

A pure love melodrama movie.

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their...

A group of Japanese scientists are stalked and viciously butchered by a creepy alien in a trenchcoat.

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...

Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long...

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his...

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...