Mantarō Ushio Movies

1962 Japanese movie

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

1946 Japanese movie.

On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in...

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

A 1954 film.

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi (The Millionaire of a Night) and shot by Hiro...