Mantarō Ushio Movies

Yoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and...

A counterintelligence film about an American spy who conspires to spread infectious bacteria inside a Japanese factory.

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very...

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive...

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Enoken's first film at Daiei.

A 1954 film.

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

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...

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.