Masao Shimizu Movies

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.

Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men....

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

A tale of a wasted youth and romantic conflict.

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

A cake shop apprentice falls in love with a female student from a wealthy family.

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

During the Warring States period, immediately after Hideyoshi Hashiba defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at the Battle of Yamazaki, in the village of Ogurisu...

The story is based on the life of a poet who lived in Japan in the Taisho era. When her fiancé is arrested she believes he has suddenly...

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...

A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very...

Film by Buichi Saito

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

After being widowed, Mihoko Ishizawa supports her five daughters by running a boarding house. Most of her daughters eventually marry former student...

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.