Masao Shimizu Movies

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

Japanese drama film.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel.

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's...

Romantic melodrama

A pure love melodrama movie.

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a...

1962 Japanese movie

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.