Movies: Yūnosuke Itō

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpo...

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil....

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves....

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Comedy drama film...

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 the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the...

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic....

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love....

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Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara...

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

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

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

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her....

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel....

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo....