Shigeru Ogura Movies

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an...

Japanese mystery film.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

1957 crime film

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her...

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Japanese comedy film.

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...