Akitake Kōno Movies

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marrying Tsuji, the most beautiful woman in the...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

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

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an...

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

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...

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

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of...

1960 Toei film.

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.

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

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