Screenplay: Hiroshi Shimizu

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Gosho Shoichi · Shinichiro Kubota · Natuski Masako · Yoshikatsu Chiba

Synopsis The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Yukiko Shimazaki · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Jûkichi Uno

Synopsis A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Tokudaiji · Shotaro Akagi · Bakudankozo

Synopsis A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Koume Akasaka · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Shinichi Himori · Moriichi Kawabe

Synopsis Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Ken Uehara · Mayumi Tsukiji · Kaoru Futaba

Synopsis Hiroshi Shimizu’s endearing road movie follows the long and winding route of a sweet-natured bus driver—nicknamed Mr. Thank You for his constant exclamation to pedestrians who kindly step out of...

Direction Masaaki Yuasa · Akitoshi Yokoyama · Atsushi Takahashi · Hiroyuki Tanaka

Synopsis TV Series (2006). 13 Episodes. A race of cannibal monsters called the Shokujinki exists and it is the job of the Kifuuken, an elite group of beast-hunters, to stop them....

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tatsuo Saito · Chishu Ryu

Synopsis Two bruised souls enact a tender, hesitant romance in Hiroshi Shimizu’s alternately poignant and playful wartime love story. A soldier (Chishu Ryu) is forced to prolong his stay at a...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Satoko Date · Hiroko Kawasaki · Takeshi Sakamoto · Utako Suzuki

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Maiko · Ryo Kase · Yoriko Douguchi

Synopsis Tokuichi and Fukuichi are two blind masseurs plying their trade around the hot springs on the Izu Peninsula, in 1930’s Japan. The two have trained their other senses to perceive...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Minoru Takada · Kinuyo Tanaka · Utako Suzuki · Kenji Oyama

Synopsis Surviving fragment of Ozu's early student comedy about a recent graduate struggling to find a job

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yukichi Iwata · Yoshiko Okada · Hideko Takamine · Joji Oka

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yûta Hiraoka · Takahiro Miura · Kana Kurashina · Akiyoshi Nakao

Synopsis Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ichirô Ryûzaki · Junko Ikeuchi · Shôji Nakayama

Synopsis Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Minoru Chiaki · Kazuo Dan · Kikuko Hanaoka

Synopsis 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Akemi · Shinobu Araki · Shinichi Himori · Wakako Kunitomo

Synopsis The story tracks an autumnal bus ride from a hot spring town through a mountain pass. When the jaunty bus unceremoniously breaks down, a bittersweet sadness overcomes the passengers as...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Haruo Takeda · Yoshiko Tsubouchi · Sumiko Mizukubo

Synopsis The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Toyo Takahashi · Konomi Fuji · Masako Fujimura

Synopsis The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Kiyoshiro Imawano · Suzuki Matsuo · Hiroshi Sakuma

Synopsis Former boxer Iwano, teamed up with Sada and Maru, who live in the same apartment building, makes his daily living as a punching bag for drunken businessmen in some corner...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kenji Oyama · Kinuko Wakamizu · Norio Ôtsuka

Synopsis A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Ayako Akabori · Yoshimasa Chiba · Keiko Fukushima · Yukiko Himori