Yōtarō Katsumi Movies

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...