Kamatari Fujiwara Movies

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

Reiko Minagawa leaves her home in Okayama to avoid an arranged marriage she doesn't want. Upon arriving in Tokyo, she calls Akira Isomura, a college...

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.