Daisuke Katō Movies

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Japanese drama

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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

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

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy...

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.