Shirō Ōsaka Movies

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent...

A young girl searches for her long-lost brother in postwar Tokyo, clinging to hope and music amid the rubble of a broken Japan. Along the way, she...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of...

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...

This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together with Joe Shishido, he stars in a film about the...

Japanese war movie.

When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan.

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness.