Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread...

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

Romantic melodrama

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Chieko, a fifth-grader living with her father, struggles to cope with the absence of her mother. When her father's mistress decides to join the...

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.