Bontarō Miake Movies

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...

There are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for...

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life...

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

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

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...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he...

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

A judo movie.

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is...