Chishū Ryū Movies

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

1962 Japanese movie

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

1955 Japanese movie

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Japanese war movie.

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...

Japanese youth film.