Murasaki Fujima

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

1962 Japanese movie

Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the...

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

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

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro,...

1962 Japanese movie

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

1963 Japanese movie

1950s Japanese comedy.

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the...

When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan.

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family...

Japanese comedy film.

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

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

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who...

In a desperate crisis, Inamaru is plunged into the dark sea by a strike from Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ryutaro desperately tries to rescue Inamaru. However,...

1960 Toei film.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...

1955 Japanese movie

Romantic comedy

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss....

1961 Japanese movie

1954 Japanese movie

Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miyuki), but is having a hard time saving up the...

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to...

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s honor—until a...

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...

Chieko gets married and moves from Kumamoto to Tokyo when her boyfriend Saburo, who works for the Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, is...

Newlyweds Saburo and Chieko are renting a room. The two get into a fight over something trivial.

Japanese comedy film.

Action melodrama.

Kagero, the leader of the female ninja serving Kasuga no Tsubone in the Ōoku, rescues a young woman who is being attacked by samurai. This incident...