Yoshio Tsuchiya Movies

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

A private detective and a colleague investigate a man for a wealthy young lady.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to...

1962 Japanese movie

Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was...

Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must...

A man running a small radio repair shop becomes a key witness in a murder case.

Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As he follows the clues, hidden alliances,...

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

1963 Japanese movie

When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the...

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A romantic movie based on Chiyoko Shimakura’s hit song of the same name, in which Shimakura herself starred.

Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for drug dealing. Initially unaware of this, he falls...

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...