Masao Mishima Movies

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The...

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an...

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.

This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent...

One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger...