Akitake Kōno Movies

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

A Dead Drifter / Hyoryû shitaî

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

1963 Japanese movie

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

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

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.