Jūkichi Uno Movies

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy...

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

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 wa...

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

Japanese drama.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord...

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with th...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is know...

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil...

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

aka Libido.

Japanese suspense film.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

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

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.