Birthday: 1917-08-04
Place of Birth: Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yone...
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Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee...
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A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
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Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dic...
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Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
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Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukik...
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A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her gua...
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At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope loc...
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as th...
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Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in...
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Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in th...
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After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed...
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An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting h...
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A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on he...
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The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...
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Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko T...
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Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl...
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Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engin...
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One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan ...
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Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con ...
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An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears ...
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In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives C...
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5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds....
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Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister....
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Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
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Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the da...
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Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft...
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A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land....
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Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that hi...
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An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the ser...
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It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period....
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Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, ...
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The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around...
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In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princ...
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Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family....
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The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the ...
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In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-sha...
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Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered ...
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The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to...
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Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...
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The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's ...
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An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must...
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Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainer...
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One night a Goblin father came home gave his son a red handball. But the boy was shocked to hear tha...
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Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets...
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A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful s...
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When an altercation with a gangster forces Kikutaro to leave Edo, he is sent by his father to Hamama...
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Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels ...
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A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a k...
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In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to aven...
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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to s...
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A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddau...
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Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (...
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Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treas...
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Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of thei...
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The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress o...
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Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta a...
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Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off....
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A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company...
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Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in ...
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A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
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A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been...
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On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...
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This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertili...
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The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam c...
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Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard....
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The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...
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The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to...
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A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hid...
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A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....
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The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catc...
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After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed presid...
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A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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After their troupe disbands, musician Moriyama and his friends join Orion Records and form “Orion St...
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A gripping action film starring Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, and Koji Wada. A man accused of diamo...
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This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...
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A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was no...
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