Tsutomu Shimomoto Movies

Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin region, is in love with Katano Shuji, a lecturer...

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

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

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

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

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

1950s Japanese drama.

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose paths have crossed.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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...

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

Set in the glamorous world of songwriting, this is the story of a failed songwriter who kills his mistress, a witness to a hit-and-run accident.

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Japanese drama

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...