Mantarō Ushio Movies

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

1961 Japanese movie

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to...

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in...

A dead lover returns as a ghost

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

1945 Japanese movie

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

1962 Japanese movie

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

A 1954 film.