Jūkichi Uno

Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing. ...

Four Sisters (1985)

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encouragement to each other, even sacrifice oneself to help others. ...

The Politicians (1983)

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation. ...

When We are Old (1982)

An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days after moving, he decides to go back to see his wife, though being opposed by his son. ...

Sea Prince and the Fire Child (1981)

The God of Water and the Goddess of Fire, who once lived in harmony, were torn apart by the Lord of the Winds. Their children, Sirius, heir to the Water Kingdom, and Malta, heir to the Fire Kingdom, become aware of the existence of their other worlds and f ...

Toshishun (1981)

The Chinese tale of a poor young man. His mother married to the cruel king of the state and he wants to take his mother back. One old man comes from the heaven and makes his three wishes come true. ...

Writhing Tongue (1980)

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peace ...

Have Wings on Your Heart (1978)

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl. ...

Sensei no tsushinbo (1977)

Two Iida (1976)

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. ...

Autumn Interlude (1976)

The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one ...

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976)

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surpri ...

The Fossil (1975)

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality co ...

Solar Eclipse (1975)

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot. ...

The Izu Dancer (1974)

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys. ...

My Way (1974)

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way. ...

Musume-tachi wa kaze ni mukatte (1972)

Kataashi no ēsu (1971)

Morning Fog (1971)

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a fa ...

The Summit of Mt. Fuji (1970)

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy. ...

Apart from Life (1970)

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims. ...

Heat Wave Island (1969)

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitu ...

The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave ...

Slave Factory (1968)

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union. ...

The Sweet Interns (1968)

The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students. ...

Onna no issho (1967)

Libido (1967)

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught between his wife's empathy and his children's judgmental scorn. As his health wavers, he and his wife atte ...

The Little Runaway (1966)

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues ...

The Stormy Man (1966)

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role. ...

Lost Sex (1966)

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a ...

Watashi, chigatteiru kashira (1966)

Kokoro no sanmyaku (1966)

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture. ...

Triumph Over Violence (1965)

Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firm conviction that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen ...

Conquest (1965)

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle. ...

The Song of Love (1965)

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father. ...

A Chain of Islands (1965)

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy. ...

Tokyo Paralympics: Festival of Love and Glory (1965)

A fascinating glimpse of the Tokyo Paralympics Games of 1964 and the pioneering athletes who participated in them. ...

Song of Farewell (1965)

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a ...

The Price of Victory (1964)

Nobuko Shibuya's Japanese volleyball documentary ...

The Flame of Devotion (1964)

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war. ...

Onibaba (1964)

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an aff ...

Gazing at Love and Death (1964)

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The ...

Shutsugeki (1964)

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Kiriko's Tango" by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. ...

The Beautiful Teenager (1964)

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him. ...

Love Comes with Youth (1963)

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the "odoriko". Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited ...

The Red Water (1963)

Comedy drama film ...

Children of Izu (1962)

Wakai senpū (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Farm Girls (1962)

Japanese drama. ...

Asu no hanayome (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring. ...

Seinen no isu (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Angel and the Outlaw (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Wind and waves of the South (1961)

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth ...

Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai (1961)

Dawn of a Canvas (1961)

A masterpiece depicting the lives of a father his daughter, he is an isolated artist and she's a model. ...

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full (1961)

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ranging from extortion, to drunken fathers, to corruption and even the persecution of a man who claims to be ...

The Matsukawa Incident (1961)

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident. ...

For This We Fight (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

The War Without Weapons (1960)

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech. ...

Jungle Block (1960)

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result. ...

The Human Wall (1959)

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home. ...

Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)

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 Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come ...

The Praying Man (1959)

A woman's happiness is gained through marriage. Yet marriage does not necessarily bring happiness... Director Takizawa Eisuke adapts Tamiya Torahiko's serialised novel. A grand tale of pure love, depicting the path of a woman's happiness with a fluid touch ...

Unripe Fruit (1959)

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student. ...

Friendship of Jazz (1959)

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder. ...

Wolves of the Night (1958)

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies. ...

Face in the Dark (1958)

Japanese suspense film. ...

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon (1958)

This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy involving a mysterious accidental death at a construction site. ...

The Coming of Age (1958)

The Seasons of Love (1958)

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated int ...

Sorrow Is Only for Women (1958)

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave. ...

Forever, My Love (1958)

Muhō Ichidai (1957)

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period. ...

Actress (1956)

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness. ...

Kanshō fujin (1956)

Japanese drama film. ...

How Sorrowful (1956)

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune. ...

Love is Lost (1956)

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya. ...

The Baby Carriage (1956)

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl. ...

Ishigassen (1955)

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of the priesthood of Tada Shrine, was weak and was always ...

A Hole of My Own Making (1955)

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings. ...

Tsukiyo no kasa (1955)

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discus ...

Yukiko (1955)

The Wolves (1955)

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families. ...

The Shiinomi School (1955)

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shim ...

Ghost Story of Youth (1955)

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi's popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and childhood friend. A woman named Tomi Funakoshi appears in front of the two, who are thinking of getting marri ...

Ofukuro (1955)

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizuka's desire to live together in familiar Tokyo. Mineko is the exact opposite of Eiichiro. ...

Striving to Live (1955)

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more. ...

Hirate Miki the Swordman (1954)

The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming the hardship of life. ...

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)

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. ...

Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako (1954)

1954 Theater of Life adaptation. ...

Ditch (1954)

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house. ...

Student Double Suicide (1954)

Love Letter (1953)

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko. ...

Onna no issho (1953)

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant ...

Before Dawn (1953)

Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten (1953)

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako ...

The Wild Geese (1953)

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age. ...

Mole Alley (1953)

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writ ...

Lady Chatterley of Japan (1953)

Miniature (1953)

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate. ...

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land (1953)

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed his "Haha Nareba Onna Nareba(Become a Mother, Become a Wo ...

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to (1952)

Japanese film. ...

Children of Hiroshima (1952)

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath. ...

The Life of Oharu (1952)

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall. ...

Sisters of Nishijin (1952)

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy. ...

Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles. ...

Wedding Ring (1950)

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness. ...

The Angry Street (1950)

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with thre ...

Town of Violence (1950)

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses. ...

Devil's Gold (1950)

The protagonist descends from the mountains with a huge amount of panned gold dust. Upon learning of his wealth, all sorts of people, driven by greed and a desire to get their hands on his money, immediately begin to gravitate toward him. ...

Broken Drum (1949)

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability. ...

A Fool's Love (1949)

Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom he 'adopted' at first as to 'train' her to be his idealistic modern woman. ...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949)

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke. ...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949)

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband. ...

Flirtation in Spring (1949)

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan. ...

Flame of My Love (1949)

In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. ...

The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow (1948)

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers from tuberculosis, feels an unbearable love for Akiko, who takes great care of him during his visits. Becaus ...

Apostasy (1948)

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual. ...

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob. ...

The Brick Factory Girl (1946)

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker's humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl's family. ...

Navy Bomb Squadron (1940)

Japanese propaganda film ...

Subterranean Heat (1938)

The Ghost of Iwojima (1959)

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those inv ...

Face in the Dark (1958)

Japanese suspense film. ...

Skinny and Fatty (1958)

Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends. ...

How Sorrowful (1956)

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune. ...