Yūnosuke Itō Movies

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

Coming-of-age comedy set in Yokosuka.

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of...

Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a...

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi