Sayuri Yoshinaga

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Junya Kato

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Takakura

First film produced by Nikkatsu Children's Films.

Genre: Family

Cast: Koji Moritsugu

Japanese action film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyū Sakamoto

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masako Izumi

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to...

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sachie Kitahara is a housewife and she has devoted her life to her family. Mako Goda is a wealthy woman who runs a business. They are both diagnosed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to...

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Cast: Jō Shishido

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

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

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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Cast: Yukio Hashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A 1961 crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of...

Genre: Family

Cast: Yo Oizumi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kato

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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

Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chishū Ryū

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga