Kamatari Fujiwara Movies

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

An Ishiro Honda film.

1955 Japanese movie

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...

Baseball movie about Eiji Sawamura.

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

When Mr. Kurano, a shady Osaka tycoon, had his mistress Yuriko Haruyama run off on him, he hired the bumbling detective Hanawa to track her down....

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...