Gen Shimizu Movies

After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police, an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day....

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is...

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Saburo Sarutobi, a former member of the Zengakuren, and Maruo Inumaruo, a former member of the police force, have joined two rival companies,...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.