Chishū Ryū Movies

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

Japanese comedy film.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...