Nijiko Kiyokawa Movies

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They...

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten...

A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves".

1958 Toei movie

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

1949 Japanese film

A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's...

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...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

1958 Japanese movie

Comedy directed by Mio Ezaki.

The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.

1955 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in...