Toyo Takahashi Movies

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the...

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

War film by Kon Ichikawa

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.

1963 Japanese movie

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

1962 Japanese movie

Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen.

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with,...

1959 Japanese movie