Shigeru Ogura

Flesh Pier (1958)

Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style. ...

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)

The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere (1958)

Early pinku. ...

Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals (1957)

Japanese mystery film. ...

Hibarigaoka Showdown (1957)

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho. ...

Cordon at Dawn (1957)

1957 crime film ...

Woman Diver's Terror (1957)

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a magazine. Later, Yuki is found dead in the sea. Yoshi, Chie's sister, along with sailor Shunsuke, try to find ...

Evil Woman Yoarashi Okinu And Saint Otama (1957)

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner. ...

Shikeishû no shôri (1957)

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho. ...

President Rai of Kingoro (1956)

A humorous salaryman comedy about the president of a beer company who is said to be President Rai. The third work after the Kingoro's Soldier and the "Kingoro's Officer". The original work is Kuni Sasaki, the adaptation is Yasunori Kawauchi of "The Officer ...

The Ghosts of Yotsuya (1956)

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous gho ...

Speed King (1956)

Japanese film about motorcycle racing. ...

The Fencing Collegian (1956)

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo. ...

Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko (1956)

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri. ...

Santōshain to onna hisho (1955)

Japanese film. ...

The Cock Crows Twice (1954)

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves. ...

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class (1954)

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke. ...

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. ...

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband (1953)

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being ...

Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. ...

Koibito-tachi no iru machi (1953)

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion. ...

Shimizu no Jirocho den (1952)

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho. ...

Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo (1952)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Dimple of Tokyo (1952)

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family ...

Mother (1952)

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

Okuni and Gohei (1952)

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni's husband and Gohei's master, and they cannot return to their lord's home ...

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. ...

Big Hit Pachinko Girl (1952)

Set in a bustling 1950s parlor, a beautiful counter clerk falls for a wealthy businessman's son, only to have their romance derailed by a ruthless loan shark and a mounting family debt. As the parlor faces ruin, the narrative weaves through slapstick antic ...

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth (1952)

Period film about the legendary detective Umon ...

Miki, the Swordman (1951)

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle. ...

Ginza Cosmetics (1951)

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza. ...

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

The Emperor's Hat (1950)

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display. ...

Mr. Thank You (1936)

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo. ...

If You Throw This Child Away (1935)

If you throw this child away ...

Mother's Love Letter (1935)

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school. ...

Kid Commotion (1935)

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day. ...

Eclipse (1934)

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the law ...

Love (1933)

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each othe ...

Every-Night Dreams (1933)

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier. ...

A Woman Crying in Spring (1933)

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases awa ...

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932)

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As t ...

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki (1932)

Chocolate Girl (1932)

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost. ...