Tomio Aoki Movies

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Japanese comedy film.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

1962 Japanese movie

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

1962 Japanese movie

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu,...

1962 Japanese movie

Period film from 1934.

Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.

A Japanese film

1962 Japanese movie

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...