Akitake Kōno Movies

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a young student, Murakoshi Kinya. Determined...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.