Kōji Shima

The Orchid (1970)

Tour bus driver Ching Pang Wen (Fang Ying) and tourist/student Annie Yeh (Lily Lo) sing and romance their way through Singapore. ...

Love Song Over the Sea (1970)

Romantic musical comedy. ...

Tropicana Interlude (1969)

Lily Ho and Jimmy Lin Chong operate a travel agency specializing in Southeast Asian holidays, Tropicana Interlude. Lin Chong wears his trademark Nehru suits, tours the scenic sights of Malaysia and Singapore, and warbles a half-dozen hit tunes, making this ...

Dear Murderer (1969)

Tu Chang (Peter Chen Ho)'s boss Yeh Kuang Lung (Liu Kei) thinks highly of him and is prepared to give him his daughter's hand in marriage. Lan Fen (Pat Ting Hung), a company typist, is Tu's sweetheart. She gets pregnant by him and threatens to tell the man ...

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 ...

That Complicated Guy (1966)

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. ...

The Story of a Blind Woman (1965)

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, she meets a businessman and falls in love with him. ...

Muchana Yakko (1964)

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up in a dirty carriage that his father owned. His dream was to have a horse with a good coat that costs 10 mill ...

Teinen Taishoku (1963)

Akiko (1962)

Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his section chief, and as he is unable to return the money, tries to kill himself. Akiko determines to obtain t ...

Otoko to onna no sei no naka (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Beloved Image (1960)

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son. ...

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 Grave Tells All (1960)

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head ...

The Path I Remember (1959)

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

The Makioka Sisters (1959)

Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka. ...

Musume no boken (1958)

Thirst (1958)

The Cat Knew (1958)

Shogun's Holiday (1958)

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tas ...

Chance Meeting (1958)

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture ...

Nine Hours of Terror (1957)

Cascading White Threads (1956)

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall, thought that he would go to the Kanazawa in the first place of the year and try to interrupt the white thread. ...

Zangiku monogatari (1956)

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story follows Kikunosuke Onoe, the adopted son of a famous Kabuki actor. Kikunosuke's father teaches him professio ...

A Rainbow at Every Turn (1956)

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Momoko, the eldest, goes out with whomever she wants, thus ...

Warning from Space (1956)

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer. ...

New Women’s Dialogue (1955)

A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth film! ...

The Phantom Horse (1955)

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ...

A Geisha on Horseback (1954)

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era. ...

Asakusa at Night (1954)

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action. ...

The Golden Demon (1954)

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despai ...

Made in Japan (1953)

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post-war period, where new customs and old traditions mix. ...

Lady Chatterley of Japan (1953)

Jūdai no seiten (1953)

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako ...

Lil's Return from Shanghai (1952)

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then. ...

Hibari no komoriuta (1951)

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie is based on Das doppelte Lottchen, a novel later adapted as The Parent Trap. ...

Mado Kara Tobidase (1950)

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju ...

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. ...

Todoroki Sensei (1947)

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi ...

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions ...

The Tale of Jiro (1941)

Story of Jiro ...

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. ...

Sōbō (1937)

The People, the Public, Citizens ...

Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown (1936)

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku ...

Daughter and Springtime (1932)

Hatobue wo Fuku Onna (1932)