Chieko Seki

Girls of the Night

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new re...

The Stranger Within a Woman

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s...

Town of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...

Tower of Lilies

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the...

Where Chimneys Are Seen

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class ne...

The Other Woman

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, th...

Yukiko

Nonki saiban

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the...

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957 Japanese movie

Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Women's House

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's da...

Yasen kangofu

In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a frag...

浮かれ狐千本櫻

Japanese comedy film.

Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on...

Seizoroi momoiro goten

1957 Japanese movie

その手にのるな

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the v...

Claws of Iron

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle....

Towering Waves

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of hi...

お洒落狂女

The Sea Anemone

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with he...

Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall seq...

Fighting Yasubei

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow mo...

The Adorable Trio

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Love Letter

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other...

The Honest Fool

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not d...

Botchan

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Nippon no obaachan

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their lo...

An Impudent Man

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, und...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself...

The Strangers Upstairs

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon d...

Diary of a Nurse

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Adventures of Princess Anmitsu

The Beloved Imposters

1958 Mito Kōmon film.

Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Love's Cheerleader

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

One Step to Happiness