Mantarō Ushio Movies

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

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

1958 Japanese movie

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

1962 Japanese movie

An uproarious human-interest comedy about the love between a father and daughter of a good-natured sandwich man, set against the backdrop of the...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.