Mantarō Ushio Movies

An uproarious human-interest comedy about the love between a father and daughter of a good-natured sandwich man, set against the backdrop of the glamo...

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-mainte...

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Le...

The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotiona...

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit m...

1962 Japanese movie

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

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—a...

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of po...

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Ja...

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

A dead lover returns as a ghost

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie is based...