Shin Saburi Movies

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

Japanese Warmovie

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

1959 Japanese movie