Yōko Tsukasa Movies

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the...

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named...

1962 Japanese movie

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

1962 Japanese movie

The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.