Shigeru Ogura

Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.

Early pinku.

Japanese mystery film.

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.

1957 crime film

ミス海女に選ばれて上京したチエとユキが行方不明になり、まもなくユキの溺死体が発見された。チエの姉ヨシは、風来坊・俊介の力を借りてチエの行方を追うが、やがてダイヤモンドをめぐる陰謀が一行の行く手を阻む…。

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

Japanese comedy film.

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

Japanese comedy film.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese film about motorcycle racing.

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Japanese film.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

かつて東京・千住に立っていた「お化け煙突」の下で暮らす人々の日常を描いた人間ドラマ。。

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Japanese comedy film.

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then.

Japanese comedy film.

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

昭和の名匠・清水宏監督が、川端康成の短編小説「有難う」を上原謙主演で映画化したロードムービー。伊豆地方の美しい自然を背景に、バス運転手と乗客たちが織り成す人間模様をユーモラスに描く。道を譲ってくれた人々に「ありがとう」と声を掛けることから、「ありがとうさん」と呼ばれて親しまれているバス運転手。そんな彼のバスに、貧しさから東京に売られていく娘とその母親、訳ありの女、威張り散らすヒゲの紳士らが乗り込んでくる。（eiga.com）

If you throw this child away

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day.

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rick Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation

In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son—until her long-lost husband returns.

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases away a sailor who was hassling a shy girl, Ofuji, which makes Ohama jealous.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

Lost silent film