Kazuo Shimomura

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...

This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

　大富豪の銀行家一族を中心に、政財界にまたがる富と権力をめぐる人間の野望と愛憎を描く社会派ドラマ。山崎豊子の同名小説を山本薩夫監督が映画化した超大作。阪神銀行の頭取・万俵大介。関西財界にその名をとどろかせる万俵一族は、子息を次々と政財界の大物と結婚させ、その勢力を広げ、磐石なものとしていた。そうした工作は、華族出身の世間知らずな妻・寧子ではなく、永らく家庭教師兼執事を務める高須相子の手腕によっていた。だが、一族の歯車は徐々に狂い始める……。

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister's life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

長谷川伸の股旅小説「勘パの勘ちゃん」の映画化で、「血斗水滸伝　怒涛の対決」の高岩肇が脚色、「愛の鐘」の久松静児が監督した時代喜劇。撮影は「カックン超特急」の杉本正二郎。

Japanese fantasy film.