Gen Shimizu Movies

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Yutaro Kodan, born under a cloud because his aristocrat father died opposing the shogunate, stumbles onto a treasure map. Lusting after the treasure,...

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

1962 Japanese movie

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police, an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

Medical student Makoto Tachibana took advantage of his summer break to visit Sado Island, the hometown of his best friend Tago. Tago was the son of...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie