Chishū Ryū Movies

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor...

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese war movie.

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

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

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

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.