Ichirô Sugai

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its ...

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading ...

When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the ...

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with ...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who ...

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been ...

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister’s a modern girl ...

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. ...

The stories of several young women who work in a ‘precision optical instruments’ factory during the second World War. Despite ...

This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiro tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka “The Shark,” a rough-and-tumble horse trader ...

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the ...

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor ...

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family ...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member. Release: Ninkyo Koubushi Kumicho to Daigashi 1970 General: mkv | 2.19 GB | 01:36:17 ...

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss. Release: Muteppo daisho 1961 General: avi | 588 MB | ...

A woman’s struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party ...

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman’s son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of ...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan’s failing postwar economy, ...

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new ...

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many ...