Yūnosuke Itō Movies

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a wh...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.

1962 Japanese movie

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...

1962 Japanese movie

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doi...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines

Comedy drama film

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe...

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconcilia...

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

1961 gangster film.

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...