Yūnosuke Itō Movies

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

Chiezo Kataoka grew up as a Magician's apprentice in America and no prison can hold him!

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Comedy drama film

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...