Seiji Miyaguchi Movies

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and...

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

1959 Japanese movie

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

1962 Japanese movie

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder...

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.