Mantarō Ushio Movies

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

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

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

A judo movie.

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Set in the midst of the Satsuma Rebellion, this story depicts the sadness of a woman’s heart. Though she hates the Imperial Army captain who...

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

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of...

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...