Masako Tsutsumi Movies

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

A five member circus runs into problems while touring rural Japan.

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the...

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

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

“19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of their loyalty. Only Yaichiemon Abe is refused...

Atsuko, a seamstress at a clothing shop in Ginza, spends her days quietly going about her work, oblivious to the gossip about romance swirling around...

Otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives due of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and...

The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Part one of two.

Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of...