Shinsuke Minami

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless...

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

A comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives.

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...

1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Live-action adaptation of Jun Hatanaka's manga "Mandaraya no Ryota".

Japanese comedy film.

Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the...

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

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

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

A plot by an evil mastermind to eliminate the lead singer of the Japanese "Group Sounds" rock band, The Jaguars, leads the group through a series of...

An inventor and his family try to raise funds to feed a giant monster named Daigoro so that he doesn't shrink. Meanwhile, a meteor lands into the sea...

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After...

1970 Japanese movie

Comedy directed by Mio Ezaki.

During his boyhood, young Hans Christian Andersen is exposed to the musical fairy-tale dream world by his Uncle Ole.

The fourth and final "Comic Storyteller" feature.

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.