Akihiko Katayama Movies

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

1962 Japanese movie

A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium...

1945 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Japanese drama

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

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...

1956 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

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