Akihiko Katayama Movies

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

1961 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

Japanese musical.

1962 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

Reimagining of the Ten'ichibō Incident.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1956 Japanese movie

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...