Kōji Mitsui Movies

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However,...

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and...

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

A 1948 Japanese film.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Manao Horiuchi movie

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....