Akitake Kōno Movies

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...