So Yamamura Movies

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...

During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers....

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.

Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was...

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

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was...