Yuriko Hanabusa Movies

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in...

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and...

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...

A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate pressure, romantic entanglements, and a...

In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo...

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a...

A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion.