Masao Shimizu

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more ...

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, resolves to move his family to safety ...

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family’s gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to ...

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a ...

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame. Release: ...

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. ...

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

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 ...

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even ...