Mantarō Ushio Movies

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

1946 Japanese movie.

1960 Japanese movie

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general.

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

A 1954 film.

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.

Inspired by the "Shimoyama Incident," which caused a great stir in society in 1949, the year before its release, this masterpiece suspense film...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered...

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...