Kamatari Fujiwara Movies

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that will arise from it.

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and...

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...