Teruo Wakatsuki Movies

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs,...

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

1963 Toei movie.

Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri.

A once-dead man is resurrected by a mysterious old man's spiritual magic to take revenge on those who killed him. An unusual and bizarre historical...

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...