Known for Acting
Yūnosuke Itō (伊藤 雄之助 Itō Yūnosuke, 3 August 1919 – 11 March 1980) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films from 1932 to 1979.
Born
August 3, 1919
Died
March 11, 1980 (age 60)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
174 films, 2 shows
The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979 · 2h 27m
country: Japan
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
The Sea of Eden
1976 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
Barefoot in Blue Jeans
1975
country: Japan
Coming-of-age comedy set in Yokosuka.
Evil of Dracula
1974 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
Time Within Memory
1973 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
1972 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Hurry on a Sail to Dream
1970 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura’s enormous fortune.
River Without a Bridge Part 2
1970 · 2h 20m
country: Japan
Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
Red Lion
1969 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
River Without a Bridge
1969 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they encounter numerous obstacles due to their caste affiliation. Together with other "outcasts," the brothers take up the fight for their human rights.
The Day the Sun Rose
The Day the Sun Rose
1968 · 2h 48m
country: Japan
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
The Funeral Racket
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
The Human Bullet
1968 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
The Woman Champion
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
1968 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
Japan's Longest Day
1967 · 2h 37m
country: Japan
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Scorpion
1967 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Japanese drama film.
The Bogus Policeman
1967 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too far, decide to sue him. On top of this the girl gets hurt and, consequently, a child from the kindergarten where Mieko teaches is kidnapped on his way home. Impersonating a policeman he tracks down the gangsters and rescues the boy. Due to this he also uncovers a scandal which allows the police to make a long due clean up in the political world. As a reward for all of this he wins the regard of the girl but now faces a stiff prison sentence for impersonating the policeman he had been and which, at heart, he truly remains.
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
1966 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
1966 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Fort Graveyard
1965 · 2h 12m
country: Japan
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
Beast Alley
1965 · 2h 20m
country: Japan
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
When the Flowers Bloom
1965 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination.
Sanshiro Sugata
1965 · 2h 39m
country: Japan
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
Tale of Japanese Burglars
1965 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
Samurai Assassin
1965 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Four Young Sisters
1964 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
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 young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
The Scarlet Camellia
1964 · 2h 43m
country: Japan
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Call My Black Dice
1964 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
The wandering gambler (Akira Kobayashi) once again picks up the dice he forswore in order to take revenge of the gangsters who exploit good citizens. The second installment in The Gambler series.
Oh, Bomb!
1964 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
Kakedashi keiji
1964 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Fools at Work
1964 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
For Love and Money
For Love and Money
1963 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Kanto Wanderer
1963 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Hot Spring Policeman
1963 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
The Hill is Full of Flowers
1963 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
若い東京の屋根の下
1963 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
The Red Water
1963 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Comedy drama film
High and Low
1963 · 2h 22m
country: Japan
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Teinen Taishoku
1963 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Ninja in a Business Suit
1963 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.
Elegant Beast
1962 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
Farm Girls
1962 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Japanese drama.
A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1962 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Our Failures
1962 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
1962 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Genkuro Yoshitsune
1962 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo.
Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
1962 · 1h 15m
country: Japan
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi
Sakura Official
1962 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.
A Roaring Trade
1962 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
Sanjuro
1962 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
1961
country: Japan
As the Clouds Scatter
1961 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
Red Flowers of Hell
1961 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
1961 gangster film.
Kaachan
Kaachan
1961 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
1961 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.
Hell's Juggler
1961 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
1960 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
Queen of the Treasure Island
1960 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei Tsuchihashi, is murdered by unknown assailants, Tadakazu is summoned to Akane-ya, the landlord of this area. He promises to ensure the safety of Mino for three days, during which the Benten family must not harm her...
Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.
遙かなる母の顔
1960
country: Japan
Youth in Fury
1960 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth and the outer Western extremism as major student protests take place.
The Sand City in Manchuria
1960 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush
1960 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Irohanihoheto
1960 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard time getting any solid proof of the nature of the incident...
The Samurai Markets
1960 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.
Hot Corner Murder
1960 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity
1960 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
The Human Wall
1959 · 2h 26m
country: Japan
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
Echo in the Mountains
1959 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.
Koko ni otoko ari
1959 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Vagabond Lovers
1959 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.
The Cast-Off
1959 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
ある落日
1959 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Hiroi Ten
1959 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.
The Hidden Treasure
1959 · 2h
country: Japan
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
1959 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Japanese drama film.
People Waiting for Spring
1959 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and self-interest.
The Days of Evil Women
1958 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
His Scarlet Cloak
1958 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among whom is the local governor, a timid creature, who is dominated by his high-born and beautiful wife, who dresses in a scarlet battle-tunic, a sign of his family's military merit around which he fabricates fantastic tales of his prowess in war. During the traditional festival when the villagers are released from observance of all social customs and restrictions, it is permissible for any man to attempt win the favors of the one he loves. However, the timid but romantic governor goes to the length of having the miller arrested to clear the way for his seduction of Osen. But Osen fights off his advances with an old hunting gun and dashes out of the mill. Jimbei, meanwhile, has escaped from jail and dashes home to finds the governor in his bed. Convinced that his wife has been violated, he decides to take an eye for an eye.
Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
1958 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
Giants and Toys
1958 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Botchan
Botchan
1958 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
The Ballad of Narayama
1958 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude. Orin, a vibrant 69-year-old grandmother, has accepted her fate — but struggles to prepare the rest of her family for the ritual.
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
1958 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man
1958 · 56m
country: Japan
Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Doronko tengoku
1958 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend
The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend
1958 · 51m
country: Japan
Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Hibi no haishin
1958 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyuki becomes torn between his love for Ikuko and his duty towards his sick wife.
The Unbalanced Wheel
1957 · 2h 14m
country: Japan
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
The Adventures of Chuji
1957 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the majestic Mount Akagi.
Yellow Crow
1957 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, and gives all his tenderness to his little daughter, who was born after his return. The boy sees all the injustice of his father and, offended, leaves home. The father realized that he was wrong, that he was guilty before his son. The mother finds the boy and brings him home. The father and the son become friends from that day on.
A Case of Honor
1957 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
I Will Buy You
1956 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
Dotanba
1956 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
The Thick-Walled Room
1956 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
This Is Home
1956 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.
Seishun wo warera ni
1956 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
The Burmese Harp
1956 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Evil Reward
1956 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of the Metropolitan Police Department, but the real Kenmochi detective arrived a few minutes later. The corpse of the bunch went up in the moat near Akasaka, and the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1 was colored.
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
The juvenile
1955 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
Tsukiyo no kasa
1955 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.
Three Faces
1955 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Shinagawa Station, which was crowded with repatriates. , The day of reunion is approaching.
The Refugee
1955 · 2h 15m
country: Japan
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
The Rookie Managers
1955 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
1955 Japanese movie
The Big Ambition
1955 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
Policeman's Diary
1955 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
Three Loves
1954 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
The Cock Crows Twice
1954 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
A Billionaire
1954 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
Turbid Youth
1954 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
1954 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
1954
country: Japan
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
1954 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1953 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting.
The Lovers
1953 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
Waseda University
1953
country: Japan
In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortune into establishing the Tokyo Professional School in a tea field in Waseda Village. With seven professors, including Takada Sanae and Tsubouchi Yūzō, and eighty-seven students, government interference extended even to finances; Ono Azusa, who tirelessly worked to secure funding, died from overwork.
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
White Fish
1953 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
Reunion
1953 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials of ten years when they fell in love and fell in love, climbed the hill of memories again. Surprisingly, there was an event that turned a moment of joy into tears ...
The Blue Revolution
1953 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Zoku jūdai no seiten
1953 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student named Masato Miki, who lives upstairs. However, when Masato becomes a part-time tutor for Akiko's classmate, Natsuko Shigeno, and Akiko becomes close to Natsuko, Akiko feels lonely. These feelings also help her to lose her purity to Junichi Yoda, whom she met by chance through an accidental mistake.
Mr. Pu
1953 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
An Edoite Judge
1953 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
This Way, That Way
1952 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
1952 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
恐妻時代
1952
country: Japan
Ikiru
1952 · 2h 23m
country: Japan
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Today is Payday
1952 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
Beauty and the Thief
1952 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
Forbidden Path
1952 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
Forty-Eight Man
1952 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Love's Cheerleader
1952 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
1952 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
I Was a Prisoner in Siberia
1952 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
お洒落狂女
お洒落狂女
1952 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Farewell to Spring
1952 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
Mr. Lucky
1952 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
1952 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Wedding March
1951 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
Sekidô matsuri
1951
country: Japan
Bengawan Solo
1951 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Stolen Love
1951 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Romantic melodrama
風雲児
1951 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
1951 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
新遊侠伝
1951 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
The Man Without a Nationality
1951 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
Yasubei Nakayama
1951 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Koibito
1951 · 1h 11m
country: Japan
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
1951 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
Nightshade Flower
1951 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
1951 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Red Peony of Night
1950 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
1950 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Golden Beast
Golden Beast
1950 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Western-style outfit lying in his exam room. He must retrace his blurry steps of the night before, and navigate a web of embezzlement, murder, framings, and false identities in Tokyo's Ginza district, to discover the identity of the dead woman and why she is there—and hopefully prove his innocence, before his wedding in three days...
When We Came Back
1950 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
Pursuit At Dawn
1950 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered masterpiece, but still a must for Ichikawa buffs.
Sanshiro of Ginza
1950 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
Duel in the Sun
1950 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Four Seasons of Women
1950 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Stray Dog
1949 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Endless Passion
1949 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: Heiji Covers All of Edo
1949 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
Ningen moyo
1949 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
The Age of Beginnings
1947 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
The Devil of Edo
1947 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara