Akitake Kōno Movies

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the...

1960 Toei action film.

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits,...

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

1963 Japanese movie

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.