Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they...

If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials...

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

Romantic melodrama

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...