Takeshi Katō Movies

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

This was the first episode of Mushi Pro Land, a unique series of 60-minute animated programs. It was also Japan's first 60-minute animated TV...

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

1962 Japanese movie

A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

1961 Japanese movie

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

1964 Japanese movie

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

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...