Fumio Okura

New Yuuden 2: Yuu Traffic (1951)

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki (Part 2 of 2) ...

Yasubei Nakayama (1951)

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 famous epic Chushingura ...

Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf (1951)

Duel in the Sun (1950)

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima (1949)

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious leg ...

Ginza Cancan Girls (1949)

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district. ...

Ningen moyo (1949)

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president. ...

Eleven High School Girls (1946)

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and ...

An Enemy of the People (1946)

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie ...

The Way of Drama (1944)

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events. ...

The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941)

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes ...

Dancers of Awa (1941)

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. His brother (Kazuo Hasegawa) vowed vengeance on the day of his brother's death. So every year the villains a ...

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2) (1941)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ...

A Fond Face from the Past (1941)

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because ...

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1) (1941)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ...

Flowers Blooming In the Storm (1940)

Jidaigeki from 1940 ...

Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki (1939)

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen. ...

Numazu Officer School (1939)

Japanese war movie ...

The Mysterious Edogawa Ranzan (1937)

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 drama with a vaguely Western atmosphere. Starring the sword-fighting star Kozaburo Ramon, directed by Kenji ...

Sisters of the Gion (1936)

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. ...