Tsutomu Shimomoto Movies

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's...

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.