Tsutomu Shimomoto Movies

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...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Japanese drama

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's...

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

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

1962 Japanese movie

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

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...

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

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

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.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

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