Hyo Kitazawa Movies

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun...

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to teach in a middle school in the...

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Baseball movie about Eiji Sawamura.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese...

Jidaigeki from 1940

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but proves his integrity, winning respect and a...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...