Hirokazu Ichimura

Love in the North

Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.

Hadashi no seishun

Youth movie.

涙のあとから微笑みが

Romance film

Teardrops

A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy group until Goro steals money from Kazue's purse. Goro is arrested and his friends start bothering Eiji. To escape their harassment he changes jobs. But then he becomes the victim of an unexpected accident.

Toshigoro

Teenage film

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...

Fight for the Glory

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Fangs of a Female

Japanese crime film

Hotsprings Holiday

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.

Falling Blossoms

Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.

Lemon Girls on the Go

Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.

The Blazing Sword

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword and make his first kill. The dojo he belongs to practices the Tennen Rishin style and teaches this to farmers. Not considered real samurai by other dojo's, they receive a request for a duel by a rival dojo practicing the Kogen Itto style. Sohaku Rokusha, a teacher there, challenges them and fights with Hijikata Toshizo. The outcome of the fight creates a deadly animosity between them that lasts through the ages.

Mr. Greenhorn

1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The Soundless Cry

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.

Dislikes

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.

The Image of Mother

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Dokuritsu bijin-tai

1963 Japanese movie

Rush to Our Sweetheart

Japanese comedy film.

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

1962 Japanese movie

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

1962 Japanese movie

Kyū-chan ondo

1962 Japanese movie

Kawa wa nagareru

1962 Japanese movie

A Country Boss

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.