Akihiko Katayama Movies

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

1956 Japanese movie

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

1961 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...