Susumu Fujita Movies

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local...

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Japanese war drama.

The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the...

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...

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.