Ichirô Satô

二次防の主力戦闘機選定をめぐり暗躍する商社とそれらと癒着する政財界の暗部を描いた山崎豊子の同名小説を映画化した社会派ドラマ。近畿商事は、総予算一兆円を越すとも言われる二次防主力戦闘機選定をめぐって、他商社との血みどろの攻防を繰り広げていた。やがて、その攻防は当然のように政界への“実弾”攻撃合戦へと発展していく。

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

　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……。

Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but when Shoken learns that his mother is actually his aunt and his parents died, he becomes very agitated and runs away from home.

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.

不忍池近くの老舗のフレンチレストラン青龍軒を飛び出して、とんかつ屋「とんQ」を始めた久作は名人気質の頑固者。師匠だった伝次とは、伝次の妹と結婚したこともあって犬猿の仲。伝次の息子・伸一はコック修行を投げ出して、久作のところに入り浸り、とり子とイチャイチャ。そして、伝次の後妻の連れ子・復二は未来食クロレラの研究に熱中していた。そんな中、青龍軒が経営不振で人手に渡ることに… 個性あふれる人物たちが織りなす、ユーモアとペーソスの大型喜劇。

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.

A human billboard and a shoeshine girl met a kid of five who got separated from her mother at a street of Ginza. They try to find a mother in a crowded town...

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.