Masao Mishima Movies

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

Japanese drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style...

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

Japanese film.

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called...

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the children return the favor in foiling an attempt on...

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya,...

1948 Japanese movie

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

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