Akihiko Katayama

The Ambitious (1970)

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desi ...

The Pit of Death (1968)

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the comp ...

Journey (1967)

Ginza for Two (1967)

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the composer about adversity into a real hit. The film adaptation of the hit of the same name by the duo Izumi an ...

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great (1963)

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire. ...

She Came For Love (1963)

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair. ...

Teinen Taishoku (1963)

Otoko to onna no sei no naka (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Her Hidden Past (1962)

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha. ...

Marriageable Age (1961)

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father's roof. As they balance their personal desires against the family's obsession with status, their search for "ma ...

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God (1960)

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded. ...

Black Sea of Trees (1960)

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister's friendships to unravel the mystery of her mysterious death... ...

Anchin and Kiyohime (1960)

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin's indifference to her in spite of her beauty. One night, while Anchin is recuperating in a hot spring, he is approached by Kiyo. She t ...

The Rockabilly Lady (1960)

Ah Special Attack Corps (1960)

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps. ...

The Path I Remember (1959)

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin. ...

The Days of Evil Women (1958)

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances. ...

Hobo Village (1958)

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato's manga. ...

Next Door to Happiness (1955)

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money. ...

The Vassal's Neck (1955)

Japanese film. ...

The Bronze Monster (1954)

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks. ...

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1954)

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to push through his business idea – the foundation ...

Dancing Girls of Izu (1954)

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story. ...

A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival (1954)

Japanese musical. ...

The Battleship Yamato (1953)

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 Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato". ...

Love's Cheerleader (1952)

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals ...

Mother (1952)

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family. ...

Riverside Fish Market Empire (1952)

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki ...

Vendetta of a Samurai (1952)

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance. ...

Akatsuki no Kyūshū (1951)

Japanese drama film. ...

The Lady of Musashino (1951)

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair. He instead becomes involved with the flirtatious Tomiko, w ...

Dancing Girl (1951)

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family. ...

I Saw a Phantom Fish (1950)

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish. ...

Delinquent Girl (1949)

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presumed to be a lost film. ...

Kōfuku no genkai (1948)

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other hand, the youngest daughter, Yukiko, is in love with a teacher older than her, much to her father's chagrin. Al ...

Umi o yobu koe (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Saigo no kikyō (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Thus the Divine Wind Blows (1944)

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281. ...

Submarine Number One (1941)

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines. ...

Kaze no Matasaburô (1940)

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite. ...

Explosion! (1939)

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda. [The plot revolves around a public contribution campaign to buy ...

A Pebble by the Wayside (1938)

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wan ...

Unending Advance (1937)

One of Uchida's early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The survivin ...