Chishū Ryū Movies

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...

Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and...

Japanese comedy film.

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main...

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Salaryman comedy.