Kyū Sazanka Movies

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

1961 Japanese movie

The 16th "Ekimae" feature.

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.

After finding a winning lottery ticket, the daughter and wife convince their father who’s been acting like a millionaire that it’s all...

The 17th "Ekimae" feature.

Period comedy with fantasy elements.

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

Sequel to the 1955 movie.

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to...