Movies: Yūnosuke Itō

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair....

1961 gangster film....

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Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for co...

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret....

1962 Japanese movie...

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination....

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 young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought s...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role....

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, a...

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

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Movie directed by Kunio Matoi...

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

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki...

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo....

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Shinagawa Station, which was crowded with repatria...

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