Yūnosuke Itō Movies

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the...

Coming-of-age comedy set in Yokosuka.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a...

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they...

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...