Mantarō Ushio Movies

Inspired by the "Shimoyama Incident," which caused a great stir in society in 1949, the year before its release, this masterpiece suspense film...

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

1946 Japanese movie.

Order of Yakuza

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

1962 Japanese movie

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.