Yūnosuke Itō Movies

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

Period film about the legendary detective Umon