Yōko Minamida Movies

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn...

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

A couple takes in the husband's father to live with them, but it leads to constant trouble. The father-in-law meddles in their grandchild's education...

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

1962 Japanese movie

3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

1960 action film.

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Set in Osaka’s lively entertainment district, the film follows a rakugo performer whose unconventional style makes him a rising star. Despite...

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern...

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent...

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.