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.

Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

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 dos filmes de Akira Kurosawa, Sanshiro Sugata e Sanshiro Sugata, parte 2. O jovem, Sanshiro Sugata, perturbado por problemas pessoais, começa a ter aulas de judo. O seu professor, Shogoro Yano, é um homem devoto que despertou a inimizade dos praticantes locais de jiu-jitsu, o mais velho e mais aceite dos dois desportos. Sugata usa as suas habilidades recém-adquirida para ganhar respeito dos outros, no entanto, Shogoro insiste que esta arte marcial tem um lado espiritual, uma lição que Sugata ainda precisa aprender. Eventualmente, no combate corpo-a-corpo com o pai de uma jovem que ele ama, ele vem a entende o verdadeiro significado do judo.

Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.

Japanese fantasy film.