Akihiko Katayama Movies

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

1962 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

1956 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

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...

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...