Shōji Yasui Movies

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

A pure love melodrama movie.

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a...

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant.

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo 's father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword called...

The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters...

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...