Chishū Ryū Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

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

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

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Japanese youth film.

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and...

A sequel to Ohana han.