Yoshiaki Banshō

Dangai kara no koe

A couple of sculptors who caused a traffic accident and changed their lives are led to a crime. The lives of the up-and-coming sculptor Sugio Nishikawa and Maiko have changed completely since the traffic accident. Sugio was forced to live in a wheelchair, and the quality of his work deteriorated. One day, Sugio insured Maiko for 50 million life insurance and forced her to cooperate with insurance fraud.

Twilight of Tokyo

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.

Naite waratta hanayome

1962 Japanese movie

Hadashi no hanayome

Japanese comedy film.

San'nin musume kanpai!

1962 Japanese movie

Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama

1962 Japanese movie

Furimuita hanayome

Japanese comedy film.

Love and the Shop Curtain

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?

Uzu

1961 Japanese movie

Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

Bridge

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Botchan

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

White Blaze

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

Hobo Village

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Young Lovers

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.

こゝに幸あり・後篇 花咲く朝

1956 Japanese movie

こゝに幸あり・前篇 誘惑の都

1956 Japanese movie

Noren to hanayome

Romantic comedy

Love du Jour

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a generational battle between a mother who is anxious about the issue of an heir and her modern children.

Dancing with a Mask

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.