Chishū Ryū Movies

Japanese war movie.

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

A straight-laced police officer is reassigned to the vice squad tasked with cracking down on underground pornography rings. While investigating a...

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

Japanese youth film.

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

A 1937 Japanese film.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino