Chishū Ryū Movies

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932

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...

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

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

1945 Japanese movie

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her...

1945 Japanese movie

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...