Akihiko Katayama Movies

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

1945 Japanese movie

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1956 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...

Kuramoto, 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...

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...