Shin Saburi Movies

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per...

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husba...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕),which means “waiter” literally....

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his da...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka),a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mot...

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relations...

Aa seishun 1951

Weed with Flowers

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.