Cast: Tomio Aoki

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Tomio Aoki · Mitsuko Ichimura

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Izumi Ashikawa · Mari Shiraki · Tomio Aoki

Synopsis The Perfect Game is a shockingly amoral tale of delinquency, rape, and murder that was to Japan, what In Cold Blood was to American cinema. College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Eijirô Tono · Shoichi Ozawa

Synopsis Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Juzaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Sojin

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sumiko Mizukubo · Ryuko Fuji · Tomio Aoki · Ichirô Yuki

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tatsuya Fuji · Yoshio Harada · Takeo Chii

Synopsis The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Direction Makoto Shinozaki

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Minoru Oki · Tomio Aoki · Keiko Utsumi

Synopsis The story of 3 Men who served together in the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. The story is told in flashbacks from modern day Japan to scenes on the island they are defending. In modern Japan, one of the men...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tomio Aoki · Tokuji Kobayashi

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Toru Hirose · Akio Isono · Sojin

Synopsis This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production,...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Hibari Misora · Shinichi Himori · Takeshi Sakamoto · Toru Abe

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tokuji Kobayashi · Setsuko Shinobu

Synopsis "Another light-hearted parody of family life and at least nominally a sequel to Gosho's 1933 success, The Bride Talks in Her Sleep. This picture, too, was released for the New Year. Here, a young groom and his bride move into...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Yôko Minamida · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Star vehicle for Kobayashi Akira and Asaoka Ruriko from Masuda Toshio (The Rusty Knife, Red Pier, Gangster V.I.P.).

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hisao Yoshitani · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Tomio Aoki · Nobuko Wakaba

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Kinuyo Tanaka · Takeshi Sakamoto · Tomio Aoki

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Yukichi Iwata · Michiko Kuwano

Synopsis The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Sanae Nakahara · Misako Watanabe

Synopsis Shinji (Akira Kobayashi), a wandering street musician, gets involved with a mob boss, Akitsu (Nobuo Kaneko), after saving one of his henchmen in a bar fight. Akitsu gives Shinji a job to evict an offshore fishery, but things take an...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Izumi Ashikawa · Asao Koike

Synopsis In the high-octane, unorthodox romance I Hate But Love (Nikui anchikusho), a celebrity (played by megastar Yujiro Ishihara), dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hachiro Kasuga · Tomoko Kô · Toshie Takada · Shintarô Kido

Synopsis A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart. Another Kayo-eiga (Pop Song Film) designed to capitalize on the popularity of a hit tune, this time Hachiro Kasuga's Umi...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Misako Watanabe · Nobuo Kaneko · Keisuke Noro

Synopsis A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. The two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Hideo Fujino · Tokiko Hada · Masao Hayama

Synopsis A business man runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune