Kyū Sazanka Movies

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent...

A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

1961 Japanese movie

Comedy drama film

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to...

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...