Kinzō Shin
Birthday: 1910-07-09
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Long Darkness
The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino,...
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Itsudemo yume o
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara ...
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The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of ei...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...
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The Song Lantern
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film t...
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Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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The Man Without a Map
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, th...
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Giants and Toys
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...
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Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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The Tale of Saikaido
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates ele...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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Girl in the Glass
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on...
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Ofukuro
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dr...
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The Soundless Cry
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one h...
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Northern City
Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blosso...
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荒木又右衛門
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they in...
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Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun
A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate....
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Shogun's Holiday
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...
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Sandakan No. 8
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life...
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Captive's Island
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was ...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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The Makioka Sisters
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient ...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese stu...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. P...
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The War Without Weapons
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa...
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The Long Death
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the ba...
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The Golden Demon
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement...
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Flora on the Sand
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversati...
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Christ in Bronze
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan....
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Ditch
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring crimi...
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Internees of Kampili
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing...
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Revenge
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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The End of a Day
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The of...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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Black Ninja
Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period....
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Pure White Nights
"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology o...
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The Brick Factory Girl
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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But the Flesh is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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Kanto Wanderer
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia...
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Distant Love
A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman....
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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Hiroshima
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina...
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Tower of Lilies
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the isla...
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Team of Ruffians
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....
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Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio...
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A Gambler's Certain Death
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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The Last Women
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the America...
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A Woman's Life
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mothe...
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants t...
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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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Clouds at Sunset
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start ove...
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Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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Gyakukōsen
Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with a...
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The Walking Major
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambli...
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Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history...
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The Scarred Crest
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds ...
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Kenkaku Shōbai: Kadowakashi
Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...
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The Flame of Devotion
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman...
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Rambling in the Wind
Set in Toyohashi, the fifth and final installment of the ‘The Wanderer’ series sees Kobayashi Akira ...
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Yatsuhaka-mura
Original work by Yokomizo Seishi. The third part of Kindaichi Kosuke's story, which was collected by...
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People Waiting for Spring
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...
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