Tsutomu Shimomoto Movies

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose paths have crossed.

Japanese drama

1962 Japanese movie

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...