Yōko Tsukasa Movies

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

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Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keanu Reeves

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Akira Takarada

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Rumiko Arai, a 20-year-old girl working in a sawmill, meets a driver, Sekiguchi, and they begin a relationship with the promise of marriage. But...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Maiko Ito

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The...

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Cast: Masahiko Kondo

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

A documentary about the 1974 film Prophecies of Nostradamus, released to coincide with the latter's release. It featured several prophets and experts...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

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Cast: Akira Kubo

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of...

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Cast: Jiro Tamiya

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight with Satoru Nobunaga (Shiho Takano), who was a nurse at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kankuro Kudo

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Ishihara

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji