Masao Shimizu Movies

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

Japanese suspense film.

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

A pure love melodrama movie.

A drama about the sex industry.

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.