Yūnosuke Itō Movies

1962 Japanese movie

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the...

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

1955 Japanese movie

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...