Akitake Kōno Movies

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits,...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

1960 Toei action film.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the...

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.