Chishū Ryū Movies

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a...

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her...

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

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

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for...

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...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

1961 Japanese movie

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...

An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...