Frankie Sakai Movies

Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they are rivals bidding for control of a major resort...

An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company. On opening night, PR manager...

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and...

Late entry "Ekimae" feature, about the hunt for lost treasure.

In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.

Period comedy about an undertaker's assistant in love with the daughter of a wealthy doctor. When her father refuses to allow the young lovers to...

The day has come for recruits to enlist in the Japanese Marine Corps. The recruits, who have left the free world to enter this strict military life,...

1953 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series Osomatsu-kun and Obake no Q-Taro.

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

Shōzō, heir to a tonkatsu shop and ice hockey star, faces a series of challenges when his team’s fundraiser goes wrong. Amid rivalry,...

In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma, a stripper who has been locked up for...

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.