Daisuke Katō Movies

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles.

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to...

1962 Japanese movie

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

1958 Japanese movie

Japanese drama

1962 Japanese movie

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a...

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...