Jō Shishido Movies

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent...

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of the Fujiwara family. Shusui speculates that...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji...

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...

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

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba,...

1962 Japanese movie

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his...

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.