Akihiko Katayama Movies

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

1956 Japanese movie

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

1962 Japanese movie

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

1945 Japanese movie

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1956 Japanese movie

Reimagining of the Ten'ichibō Incident.