Yuriko Hanabusa Movies

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

A 1943 film.

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Part two of two.