Yoshiko Sakuma Movies

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an...

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

1958 Toei movie.

1961 Toei comedy

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

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

Japanese family drama.

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe....

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who...