Mitsuo Hamada

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mai Kitajima

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Ôta

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyū Sakamoto

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuo Senda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...

Genre: War

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisako Manda

In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked...

Genre: Action

Cast: Show Aikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

15-year-old Aya Kito was an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asae Oonishi

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryotaro Sugi

Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends...

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata...

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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Cast: Yukio Hashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Set in a village in the heart of a mountain in Japan. One day, a TV crew from Tokyo, looking to shoot some footage for a show about local cuisine...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Reina Fujie

A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadashi Nishikawa

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.

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Cast: Kaori Momoi

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The romance between young girl and salaryman continues!

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Yasuhara

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Midori Tashiro

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada