Akitake Kōno Movies

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

1960 Toei film.

July 1945. War‑exhausted Japan groans under the heel of a brutal military regime. Young journalist Saeki struggles to cling to a fading sense...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

A Dead Drifter / Hyoryû shitaî

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

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