Mantarō Ushio Movies

As the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

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

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Enoken's first film at Daiei.

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

A judo movie.

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 story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

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...

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

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.

World War II era Japanese adaptation of the popular French play Marius, from over a decade before. A youth is torn between his girlfriend and his...

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive...