Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

1962 Japanese movie

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...