Kyū Sazanka Movies

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

1967 Japanese movie

Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

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

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

1962 Japanese movie