Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

1961 gangster film.

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his...

1962 Japanese movie

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Chieko, a fifth-grader living with her father, struggles to cope with the absence of her mother. When her father's mistress decides to join the...

1955 Japanese movie

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...