Kyū Sazanka Movies

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

After finding a winning lottery ticket, the daughter and wife convince their father who’s been acting like a millionaire that it’s all...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

Period comedy with fantasy elements.

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

The 17th "Ekimae" feature.