Kyū Sazanka Movies

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

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

Japanese comedy film.

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

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

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

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

1962 Japanese movie

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

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

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

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

Comedy drama film

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

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...