Keinosuke Uekusa

Grecia sirve de escenario a este espectacular drama que fira en torno del Rey Dionys, el cual ha perdido su fe en la humanidad. Un hombre joven llamado Meros hace votos de fidelidad a su rey. Esta película presenta un panorama atractivo y sensible acerca del valor intrínseco de la verdad y la amistad entre hombres.

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

Todo el mundo que crea en la magia habrá oído hablar de una isla que flota en el cielo sobre las costas de Japón. Allí la vida era tranquila hasta que Alakazam, el pequeño rey de los animales, se atrevió a desafiar con su magia al rey Amos, un moncarca querido por todos. Adaptación del manga homónimo de Tezuka que a su vez se basaba en la novela Journey to the West de Ch’eng-En Wu.

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll start falling for each other against their odds.

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but ...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Crónica sobre la relación entre un gángster de la mafia japonesa ("yakuza"), enfermo de tuberculosis y el médico alcohólico que lo atiende.

En tiempos de postguerra, dos enamorados pasan juntos un domingo, esperando que sea un día inolvidable. Están llenos de sueños e ilusiones e intentan ser felices. Pese a sus problemas y contratiempos, pese a las preocupaciones derivadas de los bombardeos atómicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, su amor les permite concebir ilusiones sobre un futuro mejor.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent companies went bankrupt shortly after the transition to sound). As he is mostly famous for his portrait of Kurama tengu (and on the other hand, he's the definitive actor for Kurama Tengu as well), Nikkatsu made another version of Kurama tengu, co-directed by Masahiro Makino & Sadatsugu Matsuda who are both sons of Shozo Makino. Scripted by Yoshitake Hisa, a jidaigeki specialist who later scripted several Toei All-Star Jidaigeki.