Masako Tsutsumi Movies

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the...

A five member circus runs into problems while touring rural Japan.

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

In 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty.

Part one of two.

Otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives due of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Atsuko, a seamstress at a clothing shop in Ginza, spends her days quietly going about her work, oblivious to the gossip about romance swirling around...

Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts...