Mitsuo Hamada

Set in a village in the heart of a mountain in Japan. One day, a TV crew from Tokyo, looking to shoot some footage for a show about local cuisine visit a shrine known for being able to sever connections with evil. However, they soon get involved in a plot by the village elder...

15-year-old Aya Kito was an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things have been happening to Aya lately. She has been falling down often and walks strange. Her mother, Shioka, takes Aya to see the doctor. How will Aya react when told about her disease? And how will Aya live from now on?

大阪の銀行の支店の次長・安斉は、顧客の預金を横領して自身のマネーゲームに使い込んでしまい、15億円の損失を出してしまう。安斉は、やはり多額の借金に苦しむ大阪府警の水沼警部補、高級クラブのママである怜子と出会い、彼らと共謀して自分が立案した詐欺計画を実行に移すことに。それはヤクザがバックにいる不動産会社を騙して、5億円の違約金を手に入れるというものだった。

A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

女性史研究家・三谷圭子は、“からゆきさん”のことを調べる過程で天草で小柄な老女サキと出会った。サキがからゆきさんと確信した圭子は、彼女が経験した過去を聞き出すため、共同生活を始める。やがて、サキはその重い口を少しずつ開いて、あまりにも衝撃的な生涯を語り始めるのだった……。

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

富士山頂にレーダーを取り付ければ日本列島の南方800km先の台風が察知出来る。しかし、こんな標高のある過酷な環境にレーダーを設置することなど前例などない。気象庁測器課長の葛木(芦田伸介)は台風の被害を少しでも減らすべく、富士山レーダー設置に情熱を燃やしていた。大蔵省へ歩を運ぶこと3年、葛木の夢は実を結ぶこととなった。三菱電機技術部員、梅原(石原裕次郎)、大成建設の伊石(山崎努)とともに2年(実質的には1年に40日)、建設予算2億4千万円の工事が始まる。極寒・高山病と作業は難航した。親方・朝吉(勝新太郎)は、資材を運ぶための馬を売ってブルドーザーを揃え頂上まで登る。山頂は乱気流が発生しやすく、気象条件が難しい中、ヘリコプター操縦する加田(渡哲也)は、直径9m、総重量600kgのドームを吊り上げ輸送する。大自然と闘って据えつけられた気象用レーダーは今も活躍している。

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

Romance about student-nurse interns.

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.

森村桂の青春小説を吉永小百合主演で映画化。就職活動中の娘が、社会と現実の壁にぶつかりながらもたくましく成長していく姿を描く。

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears to mirror her own private life... An excellent work that stylishly depicts its gradually evolving heroine.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

Japanese drama film.

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”

Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends who are always close to him. A movie adaptation of a hit song by Kazuo Funaki.

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the “odoriko”. Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited to stay at the same lodgings, the two grow closer. In time, the two come to learn the pain of love.

15歳の若枝はうす汚ないバーで酔客と酒を飲み、ヤケクソのように女給のハイヒールをかっぱらってとび出した。東京で仕事に失敗して帰って来た21歳の三郎は、職安通いの空虚な毎日を送っていた。暗く陰うつな北陸の空、金沢の映画館の前で幼ななじみの二人は再会した。三郎はうらぶれた彼女に、なけなしの金からスカートを買ってやった。喜んだ若枝は、のんだくれの父親長吉と、いやな継母のいる家をとび出したわけを話した。若枝をこれ以上堕落させまいと決心した三郎は、翌日から少しずつおくれた勉強を教えてやった。若枝の心にやすらぎがよみがえり、三郎はうれし泣きする彼女の涙をそっとすすってやるのだった…。

母が他界し、他人の家に預けられていた田島ユリは、父から都会へ引っ越すと聞いて大喜びする。しかし、転居先は「サムライ部落」と呼ばれる古い住宅で、そこには新しい母と弟が待っていた。そんなある日、ユリたちの住む一画に、ノブシと呼ばれる放浪者たちが大挙して押し寄せてくる。

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

中学3年の石黒ジュン（吉永小百合）は、鋳物工場の直立炉（キューポラ）が立ち並ぶ埼玉県川口市の鋳物職人の長女である。何事にも前向きで、高校進学を目指すジュンだが、父・辰五郎（東野英治郎）が工場を解雇されたため、家計は火の車で、修学旅行に行くことも諦めていた。 自力で高校の入学費用を貯めようと、パチンコ屋でアルバイトを始めるジュン。担任教師の助力で修学旅行にも行けることになった。しかし、ようやく再就職した父親は、待遇が不満で仕事をやめてしまった。絶望したジュンは女友達と遊び歩き、危うく不良少年たちに乱暴されかけた。 全日制の高校進学を取りやめて、就職を決断するジュン。北朝鮮への帰還問題で苦悩する朝鮮人の一家や、貧しくとも力強く生きる人々との交流を通じて、ジュンは、自立して働きながら定時制で学び続けることに意義を見出したのだった。

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...