Haruya Katō Movies

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

1962 Japanese movie

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

1961 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance studying for the final exams while...

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past...

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...