Masao Shimizu Movies

Romantic melodrama

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...

Japanese drama film.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

1961 Japanese movie

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...