Sadao Maruyama

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...