Masao Shimizu Movies

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Japanese suspense film.

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

1962 Japanese movie

A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger...

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

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...