Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

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...

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his...

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among...