Mieko Kondō Movies

A couple in love are separated between the city and the countryside and face misunderstandings due to slander from those around them, but are...

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

So the million-yen lottery ticket I finally won turned out to be invalid, but what about the Boston bag full of a million yen that I found in the...

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When...

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

1959 youth comedy.

A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as...

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794...

1962 Japanese movie

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.