Bontarō Miake Movies

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

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...

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Depicting a family during wartime.

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.