Yūnosuke Itō

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû ...

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced ...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko ...

“When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no ...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyko Flowers. Release: I Will Buy You 1956 JAPANESE ...

Release: Koibito AKA The Lover (1951) Kon Ichikawa General: mkv | 1.04 GB | 01:11:59 Video: 1805 Kbps | 718×480 (4:3) | N/A | ...

A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants. Release: The Man Who Stole ...

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned ...

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as ...

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up ...

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will ...

A dark satire of a contemporary Japan still exhausted from the aftermath of war, hunger, poverty and unemployment.And just as its people are ...

Black comedy in which the various characters an honest young tax collector encounters, as he tries to enforce the law, present a scathing ...

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father’s condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and ...

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator’s son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds’ cry and ...

[Period covered: 1575-1681] Fist film in the Shinobi series starring Raizo Ichikawa. Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan, a ...

A son hoards money stolen from the talent agency employing him, but his efforts are in vain when the money goes missing under odd circumstances. ...

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

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. ...

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho — a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life ...