Kyū Sazanka Movies

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

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...

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but...

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with,...

1961 gangster film.

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost...

1962 Japanese movie

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy drama film

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...