Masao Shimizu Movies

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between...

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.