Masaru Kodaka Movies

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...