Chūzaburō Wakamiya Movies

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

A contemporary comedy.

Sequel to the 1955 movie.

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes...

Former bantamweight champion Takeshi Kuwata retired, opened a gym, and is now devoting himself to training the next generation.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

1960 Japanese movie

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

1962 Japanese movie

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and...

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

After years of living a comfortable existence as a housewife, Aki starts to suspect that her husband is hiding something.

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

1959 Japanese movie