Shin Saburi Movies

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

1959 Japanese movie

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...