Akira Yamanouchi Movies

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

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Waiting woman

Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.