Akihiko Katayama Movies

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

Japanese musical.

1962 Japanese movie

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

Japanese drama film.

Japanese film.

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

1961 Japanese movie

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...