Ureo Egawa Movies

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

Japanese war drama.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

1962 Japanese movie

Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of...

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Japanese drama film.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Japanese crime film.

Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger...

1961 Japanese movie

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.