Masao Shimizu Movies

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Romantic melodrama

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Film from 1967.

A pure love melodrama movie.

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

1962 Japanese movie

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...