Yūnosuke Itō Movies

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Comedy drama film

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A former samurai, whose lover had died while he was traveling, was returning to Edo when he met a woman at Shinagawa-juku.

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

Japanese drama film.

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Nineteen-year-old Fukiko Kuwano lives with her father, who is nearing retirement, her mother, and her younger brother. After colliding with a...

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...