Chūzaburō Wakamiya Movies

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando)...

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become...

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

1962 Japanese movie

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

1967 Japanese movie

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying goods directly from wholesalers. During his stay,...