Kunio Ôtsuka Movies

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Aoki

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Story of young love in the hills.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yū Fujiki

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. But her provocative attitude starts to worry the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Sakae

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Akihiko Hirata

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East.

Genre: Action

Cast: Nagwa Fouad

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Emiko Azuma

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

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Cast: Shinsuke Ashida