Sō Yamamura Movies

Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility...

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

Drama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki