Sadao Maruyama

Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are ...

Sachiko Chiba sells beer at a railroad station. Two young men are in love with her. One of them sells ice cream at the same station. He wants to ...

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film ...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, ...

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of ...

A small cat wanders into a household and is the witness to the snobbery and preoccupations of a teacher’s household and its interactions ...

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part – Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that ...

This film, directed by Mikio Naruse, is a study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his ...