Akitake Kōno Movies

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

A Dead Drifter / Hyoryû shitaî

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

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

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.