Kyū Sazanka Movies

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

1961 Japanese movie

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...