Norihei Miki Movies

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Murasaki Fujima

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chieko Baisho

Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Teruko Asahi

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Makoto Nonomura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kuroki

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, is alive and residing in Hokkaido.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoko Kikuchi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

1963 Japanese movie

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Cast: Noriko Maki

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yū Fujiki

1961 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yū Fujiki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Naoko Ken

A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only...

Genre: Action

Cast: Norihei Miki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kaori Momoi

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Ogata

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Akiko Wada

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

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Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norihei Miki

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yûko Natori

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norihei Miki

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomiko Ishii

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tamasaburo Bando

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

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Cast: Mariko Miyagi

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

Japanese comedy film.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The...

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Cast: Masahiko Kondo

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norihei Miki

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

An Ishiro Honda Film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Saito

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

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Cast: Toshio Kakei

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaaki Sakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norihei Miki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Nemoto Ritsuko is the girlfriend of Kuroki Tamotsu. Both are 22 years old. Ritsuko lives with her father, Shingo, a piano tuner and city hall clerk....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

Ensemble comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tamori